This is the first of three articles about TTC services on Dufferin Street, the 29 Dufferin local bus and its 929 Dufferin Express counterpart.

• This article reviews headway performance at the terminals and along Dufferin during the month of April.
• Part II will review travel times over the same area.
• Part III will review historical data back to January 2024 to see whether there have been changes in the route’s behaviour over the past 16 months.

Major points worth noting:

• Other than the restoration of the 29C service to Princes’ Gate in Fall 2024, there was no change in the scheduled level of service or travel times over the period studied here.
• Headways are not well-regulated on either the local or express services from either terminal during the entire day.
• At the point where buses would enter the proposed RapidTO red lanes, the service is already disorganized. Travel times might improve, but the irregular headways will not.
• Weekend service is even more disorganized than on weekdays.
• Congestion is evident at some locations and times along the route, but it is not pervasive. Some problem locations are within the proposed transit priority area (south of Eglinton), but some are not (notably near Yorkdale northbound).