Platform 27
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The biggest problem with trying to use a weekend train service (whether GO, Via, Zombie Northlander etc.) as a kind of cottage country congestion-dodgers' special is that there's one hell of a last mile problem when your feet hit the platform at Washago or Gravenhurst with your luggage and inflatable lake toys and case of beer. In this case, it's a last 20 miles problem: the destinations are so dispersed that you simply need an automobile to carry you on the next leg from the station, and likely need to keep using it over the course of a weekend for various errands and trips back into town. And that's also assuming you can get from your origin somewhere in the GTA to Union (or Oriole or wherever) to begin your trip reasonably easily.
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