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Dowty Road Ajax construction: DRT detour, starting September 12



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:

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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.

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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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