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Thousands of bus commuters in Toronto should feel a less crowded and quicker ride during rush hour after 50 new buses were added to 24 routes over the weekend.

The TTC made the announcement as part of the city’s $95 million investment to improve bus service on congested routes.

“What we’re trying to achieve across the city is a network, or spine of routes, that delivers a 10 minutes or better service,”said TTC Chair Josh Colle during a press conference at Wellesley Station on Tuesday.

Colle said the plan is to further expand service to new express routes next month.

“This is still the beginning where we’re going to see later in a couple of months, the express buses and those new routes rolled out across the city,” Colle said.

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“So many suburban parts of the city will have express service between important nodes.”

Below is a list of the routes impacted by the new service improvements.

6 Bay

21 Brimley

20 Cliffside

25 Don Mills

143 Downtown/Beach Express

144 Downtown/Don Valley Express

125 Drewry

111 East Mall

195 Jane Rocket

83 Jones

12 Kingston Rd

44 Kipling South

102 Markham Rd

46 Martin Grove

16 McCowan

57 Midland

65 Parliament

66 Prince Edward

134 Progress

123 Shorncliffe

55 Warren Park

94 Wellesley

112 West Mall

89 Weston

The following routes will have schedule adjustments to improve service reliability.

20 Cliffside

113 Danforth

23 Dawes

57 Midland

85 Sheppard East

Additional Service Increases Extra trips will be operated at various times of the week on the following routes.

61 Avenue Rd North

15 Evans

42 Cummer

47 Lansdowne

56 Leaside

73 Royal York

80 Queensway