A new survey from the London Economic Development Corporation (LEDC) suggests the city’s public transit is woefully lacking when it comes to industrial areas.
The London Transit Commission (LTC) isn’t disputing that claim, but chair Sheryl Rooth does say much more study needs to be done before action can be taken to correct that, noting that only 13 per cent of LEDC members responded to the survey.
“I found that very disappointing, especially when we have businesses saying ‘we need employees and we need a way to get them here’ and we’re reaching out to them but we’re not getting that response back,” Rooth said Wednesday on The Craig Needles Show.
“Maybe LEDC can send out the survey again and our senior management team at LTC is definitely going to be working with the city and collecting more information and more data and see where we can go with it.”
Rooth adds that it’s not as simple as adding more buses, noting that currently, connecting transfer buses don’t start early enough for shift work and Veterans Memorial Parkway wasn’t built for public transit stops.
“There’s a lot of infrastructure things that we would need to look at apart from the actual need and the ridership level. It’s a big process and unfortunately, it’s not something that happens overnight. We ask patience but when you have to turn down opportunity, asking for patience is asking a lot sometimes and I completely understand that.”
The survey will be discussed at Wednesday evening’s commission meeting.
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