Does anyone know what the closest groercy store(s) is to campus, and specifically where it is? (I want to look it up on map quest) Also, how far is it? like walking distance, or bus?

While we're talking about buses, is there any efficient way of figuring out he bus system besides just slowly trying to learn it? lol because I'm from Guelph where buses are easy: they all go downtown. Hamilton's a lot bigger, so I'm worried about being able to go places on the bus. I dont even know where a mall is in Hamilton! Is there like some sort of mac orientation for learning about hamilton or anything? thanks!!

There is fortinos on Main St West and it's about a 10 minute walk from the Main St Entrance. There's also the Barn just outside westdale which is about a 15-20 minute walk (depending on how fast you walk) from the Sterling St Entrance.

By bus? Well unless it's cold it's not really worth the wait to go to fortinos, but the bus trip back (when you're loaded down) is less than 5 minutes to the main st entrance. Unfortunately the 52, nor the 5 will take you into campus from that end. The 10 beeline does go into campus from that entrance but it won't stop at the bus stop outside of fortinos cause it's an express.

From the Barn: it's about a 10 minute ride and you can take the 5, the 51, the 10 or the 1 King. All of these stop at the stops ON CAMPUS.

HSR website

The trip planner works sometimes, other times it's a little stupid.

Fortinos on Main

The Barn in Westdale
Okay, after trying the Barn link, it's not taking you back to the actual store. The barn that you want is: Hamilton- 845 King St. W

wow thanks so much kokosas, that was a really thorough reply!

Buuuut...

They're discontinuing the B-Line route...

Originally Posted by lorend

Buuuut...

They're discontinuing the B-Line route...

They are?
http://www.myhamilton.ca/myhamilton/...ute10BLINE.htm

You can try to take a look at the "System wide" hsr map and figure out where you want to go in relation to the university. So you'd look on Google Maps, figure out the closest intersection and then open up the system wide map.

We're in the west part of the city.

To answer your question about where the mall is in Hamilton! The best one is up on the hill (you'll know soon enough what I mean), it's called Limeridge Mall. It's about 30 to 40 minutes on the bus and you have to transfer once. It's not too hard though. You would take the 5 going off campus (towards Sterling ave) then you would get off of that one at McNab St (Just look for the Canadian Football Museum, it's right after that), then you would walk (in the same direction as you were going on the bus) to James st, turn right onto James st and there's a few bus stops there, one is the 25/26 stop. Take the 25, it takes you right to the mall. That should be all right, there are other buses you can take off campus but I can't remember which other ones go to the same place.

They're not discontinuing the B-Line, they're just not having it stop actually on campus anymore. There was an article in the Spectator about it today - http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/423104

Basically, it'll just stop along Main St., so you'll have to walk from there. It's part of the ongoing showdown between Mac and the city regarding the number of vehicles passing through the centre core of campus - the city now demands trucks not use Sterling St. because of complaints from residents, so they have to pass through the pedestrian core to get into campus. As a result, Mac said some HSR buses can't pass through campus anymore to keep traffic down.

thanks alyssabriere, I'm sure I'll get used to it quickly.

does anyone know where the nearest Hamilton Public Library branch is to campus?

Nearest HPL branch is Westdale. It's maybe a 15 minute walk from the Sterling St. gates. It's not a very big branch, but they can order items in from any branch in the system if you find something you want in their online catalog. The biggest branch is Central, which is downtown, and very easily accessible by bus from campus.

Does anyone know about the Fortinos shuttle bus? I heard about it one year but I didn't pay attention because I was on campus and didn't need to grocery shop often or work out busing.

Anyways, I can't seem to find any information about it online so I was wondering if this shuttle still operates or if it was discontinued. I think it used to operate on Monday evenings.

They're no longer having the Fortinos Campus Shuttle. I asked them when they came to Sidewalk Sale - and they said that they didn't get enough students using it last year so they stopped doing it. :(

Oh, that kind of sucks. There was a stop right by where my house is, that would have been convenient.