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anb
Active Member
Don’t you just love it when transit makes you inaccessible. I hate this design choice with a burning passion. Wanna get a coffee at tim hortons before your morning train arrives? Well make sure you’re there 2 hours before so you can be sure to catch the train. Wanna head from Oriole-Highway 407 station? Well make sure your train is on time and when you get off, run up them stairs, cross the bridge and run back down another flight and hope for the best that you catch one of the GO buses before they drive off. Why couldn’t they make an underground tunnel in the first place, and actual walkways between Home Depot and RHC that makes more sense if you’re trying to make Richmond Hill a thing to transit users.
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
Decent ridership for the first weekend of all-day service to West Harbour it seems! Now let’s get those Niagara trains stopping there too (some track work required).
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Richard White
Senior Member
Let's not get the Niagara Trains stopping there. The travel time is already insane without an additonal stop.
Northern Light
Superstar
Already discussed, what is required is alternate-stopping patterns as service is enhanced.
You're not getting non-stop Union-Niagara; not happening.
So the key is serving more places en route, but with limited stops on any given run.
Hamilton should be among those locations that receive service.
Richard White
Senior Member
Northern Light
Superstar
I don't think its been posted yet.......(apologies if it has)
Next weekend (Aug 14-15); GO is nixing service between Union-Danforth on the LSE. Service will run west from Union and East from Danforth.
Details are up on the GO site, here: https://www.gotransit.com/en/trip-planning/go-service-updates/train-schedule-changes
Apprently related to track work; I didn't notice anything any material in the corridor as yet (ties, rail, etc.) so not sure what they're up to, @smallspy or @crs1026 may know.
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Reminder that 15M service on Lakeshore returns tomorrow, for Rush Hours and Mid-Day on weekdays.
Next weekend (Aug 14-15); GO is nixing service between Union-Danforth on the LSE. Service will run west from Union and East from Danforth.
Details are up on the GO site, here: https://www.gotransit.com/en/trip-planning/go-service-updates/train-schedule-changes
Apprently related to track work; I didn't notice anything any material in the corridor as yet (ties, rail, etc.) so not sure what they're up to, @smallspy or @crs1026 may know.
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Reminder that 15M service on Lakeshore returns tomorrow, for Rush Hours and Mid-Day on weekdays.
SaugeenJunction
Senior Member
Agreed. Only key stations should be served and West Harbour, being the “central all-day station” for the city, deserves Niagara GO access. It would also probably add lots of riders to the service.
Saw this on Twitter. Looks like a Niagara GO West Harbour solution is in the works still, which is great.
smallspy
Senior Member
A bunch of work at the east end of the USRC is being done this coming weekend, as well as a signal bridge being replaced. Interestingly, they will be staging and running the regularly-scheduled VIAs through the site (albeit with delays).
Dan
Northern Light
Superstar
I knew you would know! Thanks, Dan.
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christiesplits
Guest
The Globe's Theatre critic on the potential for a GO Train to Stratford.
Northern Light
Superstar
What's amusing to me in that is the reply by Jonathan Goldsbie suggesting this service is a decade away.............
(psst, I don't think so).
Garuda
Active Member
Realistically what would service look like? Not running weekend service would be stupid as the majority of users would be off pealed travellers. Friday nights would be very popular for getting to Stratford and London.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
I saw that at Stratford, but I had to drive to get there.