Toronto Pearson (YYZ) airport bus improvement

Starting on Sunday, TTC buses serving Toronto's Lester B. Pearson
International Airport will stop at all three terminals. Now that
its frequency has also improved from the old 45-minute service,
I think this will make their 192 Airport Rocket route a desirable
choice for a substantial number of passengers.

Passengers wanting a bus to Toronto now have the following choices:

* Airport Express http://www.torontoairportexpress.com/
- single fare $15.50, $26.75 return; 10-trip fare available
- highway-type buses with luggage compartments
- serves all terminals
- runs express to downtown where it serves a circuit of major hotels.
(Short walk to the subway if you get off at the Royal York Hotel.)
- basic service every 30 minutes, every 20 at some times
- trip time about 30-45 minutes when traffic is light, depending
on your exact trip

* GO Transit http://www.gotransit.com Brampton - York Mills route
- single fare $3.65; 10-trip fare available
- some buses have luggage compartments
- serves only terminals 1 and 2
- semi-express service to York Mills and Yorkdale subway stations
(in north part of city, about 20 minutes from downtown)
- in the other direction, runs to Brampton
- basic service every 60 minutes, every 30 or better at some times
- trip time when traffic is light, about 25 minutes to York Mills,
35 minutes to Yorkdale

* TTC http://www.toronto.ca/ttc/
- single fare $2.25, includes free transfers as needed to reach
anywhere in Toronto via subway, streetcar, and/or city bus routes;
5-trip fare (good for any TTC routes) available, but possibly not
at the airport (you have to go to a subway station or a store that
sells TTC tickets or tokens, and I don't know if anyone at the
airport does).
- ordinary city buses, no luggage compartments
- serves all terminals
- routes:
* 192 Airport Rocket
- express to Kipling subway station (in west part of city,
about 35 minutes from downtown; enters fare-paid area of
station, so you don't need to show anything to transfer)
- every 20 minutes
- trip time about 20 minutes when traffic is light
* 58 Malton - ordinary local city bus running along Lawrence
Avenue to Lawrence West subway station (in north part of city,
about 20 minutes from downtown; enters fare-paid area of station)
- mostly every 24 or 30 minutes, more frequent at some times
- trip time about 50 minutes when traffic is light
- also runs in the other direction to certain points in
Mississauga along Airport Road, but costs more that way.
- During the overnight hours from about 1:30 am to 6 am when most TTC
routes (including the subway) are shut down, the TTC still serves
the airport with two night bus routes, the 300 Bloor-Danforth and
the 307 Eglinton West, which run along the streets named. These
might be useful for people leaving on very early flights. Same fares.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Domine, defende nos
| Contra hos motores bos!" -- A. D. Godley

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