TORONTO - It took one GO Transit scheduling change to turn Siddhartha Batra from a regular commuter to a full-time remote worker.
A direct bus operated by the regional transit provider used to provide an easy way for the 31-year-old civil engineer to travel from his home in downtown Toronto to his job roughly 35 kilometres away in Mississauga, Ont.
Batra is not alone in his frustration with the scheduling changes, which Metrolinx announced late last month and largely implemented as of Saturday. “We now have to go from Union to Port Credit and then take a bus across. So it’s just made it a lot worse, the transit time,” Batra said, noting the new schedule adds nearly an hour to the commute.
A message on the GO Transit website announcing the service adjustments said they will result in “faster trips for those heading further west to Oakville, Burlington, Hamilton and beyond.”“That’s just false advertising, so that’s my first frustration,” he said. “My second frustration is the amount of notice that we were given and the way this was communicated. Almost no notice at all for people to make adjustments to their jobs.
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