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No need for such rude words. We should all aim to rise above those who make ridiculous generalizations about entire cities.
No need for such rude words. We should all aim to rise above those who make ridiculous generalizations about entire cities.
TOareaFan
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I am almost positive that Drum118 has likely already named this date but in case he hasn't....I just read that the first GO train will pass through the Weston tunnel on December 15th.
Presumably the first inbound train in the morning ...since that leaves Bramalea at 5:54 in the morning....that is way too early for me....so if anyone else is up that early it would pass through Weston at around 6:10.
Presumably the first inbound train in the morning ...since that leaves Bramalea at 5:54 in the morning....that is way too early for me....so if anyone else is up that early it would pass through Weston at around 6:10.
Platform 27
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From twitter:
@GTS_Project said:The Old Weston/Junction Road reopened to vehicles and pedestrians today. http://ow.ly/i/7Mpm7
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smallspy
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Actually, that would be the third train through the tunnel. It deadheads up from Willowbrook via Union Station, as does the 5.55 Mount Pleasant train. They should pass through there northbound around 5.10 and 5.20 that morning.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
TOareaFan
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W. K. Lis
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DonValleyRainbow
Senior Member
Yeah, it pissed us off. It was amazing how much congestion was relieved when it was opened, and then we went back to where we started.
Also from the November update: trains will start using the Weston tunnel on December 15.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
The sidewalk on the east of Weston Road at St. Phillips Road also needs to have concrete poured as well
timio
Active Member
Will that be the end of at grade crossings for trains between Bramlea and Union?
drum118
Superstar
No, there are still a few, but will be gone in the next year or so as construction has started on them.
No grade crossing east of Derry Rd in Mississauga to Union.
CP will still be grade crossing in Weston
DonValleyRainbow
Senior Member
The only two remaining grade crossings between Brampton and Union are Scarboro St and Torbram Rd, in northeast Mississauga. I can't remember what's happening to these crossings...
Allandale25
Senior Member
Regarding Torbram, details [PDF] here.
Sorry if this has been covered but three questions:
1) Do we know when GO Transit will release the new schedule for the Kitchener Line post-GTS completion?
2) Do we have a sense if any reverse direction trains will be introduced? IE Westbound from Union to Brampton (or beyond in the mornings); Eastbound Brampton to Union in the afternoons/evenings
3) Any expectation that weekend service will be added?
TOareaFan
Superstar
1) there has been no formal word but some knowledgeable posters who have proven reliable in the past have indicated that even though GTS is to be complete in the spring of 2015....there will be no changes in schedule until September of 2015. Seems introducing service after the Pan Am games is the reason/rationale
2) there is an expectation that there will be some reverse direction (as you describe them trains) but not all day 2 way hourly service or anything like that.
3) Again, nothing official, but GO/ML have consistently replied to communications from me that there are no plans to introduce weekend rail service at this time.
smallspy
Senior Member
No, that was not the reason at all. Crewing is the issue. It was never going to start until the middle of the year at best - the Pan Am Games simply pushed that back by a couple more months.
That's your expectation, and you should make that clear.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
TOareaFan
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Honest mistake (was not trying to skew my answer) but i thought the completion of GTS was spring...I guess I fell into the trap of thinking Spring was March 21 when it could just as easily, I guess, be June 21. It is why construction schedules often give seasonal estimates of completion.....it creates an inherent 3 months of flex and also makes any delays seem less (ie. a spring project delayed to summer seems like one unit of time....but could be as much as 6 months
).As for the Pan Am thing...it still baffles me that would delay the introduction of service at all. I hear all the "crew shortages" but they have had, what, 5 years to prep for, both, the Pan Ams and GTS completion and to have an event that is subject to discussion about how it creates more congestion actually delay (if only by a few weeks/months) the introduction of a transit service/expansion just seems bizarre.....but I think we discussed this a while ago and it honestly was not my intent to taint negatively my answer to trudeau1982....sorry if it came across that way.
Again, I thought there was a very long discussion around what kind of schedule was possible with "the up to 29" trips that GO/ML are planning (13 more than today....6.5 new return trips) and I thought there was general agreement that what was possible with that number of trips was something less than hourly bi-directional service. Again, was not trying to skew or re-open any wounds....just was trying to answer a fellow poster's question.