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“There are a couple of tweaks that need to be made — the message is going out to drivers right now not to let people off for the O-Train at Bayview, and a couple of busloads of people have gotten out and didn’t know where to go — but we’re not seeing any stacking up of buses, and the cars are not particularly stacked up, either.”

Nevertheless, at about 5 p.m. he tweeted his satisfaction with the way things were going, traffic-wise. “Bussing through the detour westbound — pretty smooth so far!

Troy Charter, an assistant general manager of transit operations, echoed the sentiment. “There are no impacts to our service following the service change due to the closure of the Transitway between Merton Street and Empress Avenue,” he said in an email statement.

Leiper, meanwhile, acknowledged that the extra bus traffic along Scott and Alberts streets will be a major headache for residents there. “It’s loud, and that, along with the air quality, is something that we’re going to have to monitor.”

Overall, however, riders seemed to take the disruption in stride. Some commented that their commutes were delayed by two or three minutes; others said there was no change.

“We can’t do much about all the construction,” said James Vannier, a civil servant on his way to work downtown. “It might be a little inconvenient for some people, but it’s all part of getting to something better.”

bdeachman@postmedia.com