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One would think so. Right now, CN is also in the process of moving dispatching of some non-GO territories from its Toronto dispatching office to Montreal. The two changes are related, since once the GO desks move to Oakville the remaining territory handled from Toronto will be that much less, and economies can be obtained. In the short term, it means that some of the RTC's are moving around and may not be handling the territories that they are most familiar with. Lots of change all around.

- Paul

CN is not just moving the dispatching from the non-GO territories. CN is projecting to close down their Toronto RTC office permanently come this September - as they have been told that is when the GO control centre will be fully operational. All dispatching duties that are currently in Toronto will be distributed between the other three offices.

Dan
Toronto, Ont.
 
^ So when a GO train on the Richmond Hill line leaves the GO owned track the RTC will switch from GO's to CN's?
 
CN is not just moving the dispatching from the non-GO territories. CN is projecting to close down their Toronto RTC office permanently come this September - as they have been told that is when the GO control centre will be fully operational. All dispatching duties that are currently in Toronto will be distributed between the other three offices.
That's quite the hard deadline!
Hopefully the switchover happens smoothly, and GO gains some initial RER efficiencies by next year's timetables.
 
So.......some.....new off-peak service coming to GO Lakeshore beginning April 7.

Apparently a few new late-night and weekend runs.

No other new GO service, but some modifications to run and departure times on Barrie.

UP gets two new early morning runs as well.

https://news.ontario.ca/mto/en/2018/03/ontario-adding-more-service-on-go-transit-and-up-express.html

New trips between Oakville and Toronto - not all the way to Aldershot. I wonder if this is because of bridgework at Burloak and Kerr, or because of CN being difficult at Aldershot.
 
So.......some.....new off-peak service coming to GO Lakeshore beginning April 7.

Apparently a few new late-night and weekend runs.

No other new GO service, but some modifications to run and departure times on Barrie.

UP gets two new early morning runs as well.

https://news.ontario.ca/mto/en/2018/03/ontario-adding-more-service-on-go-transit-and-up-express.html

This is interesting - it seems that they've greatly scaled back the amount of service that they originally intended to provide.

But what they are doing is fleshing out the current half-hourly service so that it now runs all day, every day, rather than tapering to it in the mornings and tapering from it in the evenings.

By the by, the new schedules are available on the old website, and in PDF format if you'd like to see them whole, rather than the piecemeal format that they give you on the new site.

New trips between Oakville and Toronto - not all the way to Aldershot. I wonder if this is because of bridgework at Burloak and Kerr, or because of CN being difficult at Aldershot.

I suspect that all of that is at play here, along with wanting to keep crewing costs down as well.

Dan
Toronto, Ont.
 

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