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Northern Light said:
There appear to be some schedule changes for the K-W, Barrie and Stouffville corridors on April 26.

I had a quick glance, and couldn't see much difference w/o comparing times, but I thought I'd flag it so someone might take the time to see what's going on.
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@Tristen already did so on the previous page of this thread. The change was mostly just formalising some duplicate buses for trips which are currently failing to meet demand. Though notably not on some routes such as the 12 and 25 where GO has already been running unscheduled extra buses to accommodate demand.

They added a bunch of new 65C express trips from Union to Aurora, but they timed most of them such that they're useless for passengers connecting to the 68. So passengers heading to stations north of Aurora need to take the 65F local, which takes 30 minutes longer.

For example, if the 20:22 65C instead departed Union at 20:53, it would provide a basically identical service to the 20:53 train trip it's standing in for.

Barrie line weekday timetable effective 26 April 2022, marked up in red with my proposed times:
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And it's the same deal on the weekends, most of the 65C express trips miss the connection to the 68 in Aurora.

Barrie Line weekend timetable, missed connections circled
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This is nice but I hope it turns out to be an express service to Oshawa. We also need the long awaited Highway 407 corridor to Peterborough connection soon and i’m surprised they haven’t done it yet considering the government owns the 407 in Durham, and there’s so many open routes you could generate. Maybe in September we’ll see it happen.
 
Eagerly waiting for updated and hopefully significantly increased GO train service on all lines. No train to Niagara Falls on weekends is sad!

Who can enlighten us what to expect and when?
 
Andy_in_Toronto said:
Eagerly waiting for updated and hopefully significantly increased GO train service on all lines. No train to Niagara Falls on weekends is sad!

Who can enlighten us what to expect and when?
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I can't see them delaying the return of Niagara Trains much into May.

Once the weather gets warmer than train is a cash cow for GO
 
They'd be stupid not to have the train in place by Victoria Day long weekend, but I wouldn't be surprised if they wait until June with how nonsensical their service has been lately.
 
generalcanada said:
people expect a whole new rail extension to happen on a whim.

I know for a fact many people who moved to bowmanville SPECIFICALLY for the rail extension. Realisticly probably not going to happen till closer to 2030
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London was only possible in the short amount of time because
The stations are already there, (no idea why all doors don't open at stratford and london), asked the engineer but doesnt know either... my theory is they measured the L12 cab from the crossing at Stratford.
the track is already there (in bad shape) , but some speed restrictions have been lifted to 60mph causing them to be about 5 minutes early to Stratford consistently there is also space for storage tracks on the north side that could be used for go storage?

In terms of freight traffic, I think only CN L568 runs, the very occasional CN L540 and also the GEXR local from Goodrich.

For the Bowmanville extension...
there are currently no tracks to connect from Oshawa go to the bridge they are planning to use.
its on the CP Belleville sub so that's one of their mainlines to Montreal but to be fair... i havent' seen much CP trains lately, in fact on the CP Galt sub (milton line) i only saw 1 eastbound train the whole midday. it wasn't until late evening that substantially more trains came by
the stations aren't even constructed.

Most rail extensions do not happen overnight...
 
I mean can we mention Confederation GO too? Was supposed to be completed in 2019, the "tender" was issued spring 2020.. and literally not a peep in 2 years. Like, a construction tender should close and see construction a few months later. What's going on? Why hasn't Metrolinx said anything?
 
It's ridiculous how quickly some projects go from "conceptual" to holes in the ground (the Eglinton West LRT tunnel) while others linger on forever, like the Highway 6 bypass around Morriston, the new Highway 7 between Kitchener and Guelph, and some of the GO Transit projects, like Confederation and Casablanca.

The province is full steam ahead for the Bradford Bypass, while 7 New has been on the books since the 1980s.
 
ShonTron said:
It's ridiculous how quickly some projects go from "conceptual" to holes in the ground (the Eglinton West LRT tunnel) while others linger on forever, like the Highway 6 bypass around Morriston, the new Highway 7 between Kitchener and Guelph, and some of the GO Transit projects, like Confederation and Casablanca.

The province is full steam ahead for the Bradford Bypass, while 7 New has been on the books since the 1980s.
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Morriston Bypass does finally have an early contract issues like the Bradford Bypass, but yea, still not the main package.

7 New has clearly been a political tool for decades and no government seems to want to foot the bill to actually build it.
 
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