Starting Tuesday, September 12, the Town of Ajax is closing
- Dowty Road between Thompson and Hunt streets
to accommodate contractors who are connecting sanitary-sewer and water services to a building site.
Durham Region Transit is detouring buses along this route, while the street is closed:
Construction on Dowty Road and the resulting DRT detour continue until September 15.
Route 917
From 7 a.m. Tuesday, September 12 until 6 p.m. Friday, September 15, westbound buses operate along their regular path to Harwood Avenue South and Hunt Street, then detour:
northward along Harwood South;
westward along Station Street to Dowty Road,
resuming their regular path westward along Fairall Street.Westbound buses skip their regular stops
- on Hunt Street beyond Harwood Avenue South and at Mills and Dowty roads and
- on Dowty Road beside #177 Dowty.
Instead, westbound buses drop off or pick up passengers at temporary stops
- on Harwood Avenue South at Kings Crescent [south and north] and
- on Station Street beyond Harwood Avenue South and across from Mills and Dowty roads.
Eastbound buses reverse the westbound detour routing.
Eastbound buses skip their regular stops
- on Dowty Road beside #160 Dowty and
- on Hunt Street beyond Monarch Avenue and at Harwood Avenue South
Instead, westbound buses drop off or pick up passengers at temporary stops
- on Station Street beside #87 Station and at Harwood Avenue South and
- on Harwood Avenue South across from King Crescent [north] and at Hunt Street and
- on Bayly Street East beyond Harwood Avenue South.
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