robmausser
Senior Member
What I would like to see is Metrolinx come out and say: "Instead of charging extra for parking, we are going to be un-bundling the parking cost from the transit cost. Instead of paying for them in one combined fare, you will now pay for them separately. If you drive, your overall fare won't change. If you take another mode to get to the station, your fare will go down."
Since most people drive to GO stations anyway, I'd imagine the impact on the bottom line wouldn't be substantial. If more people switch to other modes to take advantage of the lower fare, well then the stick has done its job.
There is one other advantage to this however. In places like Oriole GO, where tons of people park in order to go to North York Hospital for free, for example, it will mean that no one is using GO parking for illegitimate purposes.
So it will mean that parking will strictly be for GO.