GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

[hw621]

Having something similar to this for GO would be amazing

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10155374995997411

Those rusty tracks...Is it a diesel train? I don't think GO is much different than this.

 

[Streety McCarface]

Those rusty tracks...Is it a diesel train? I don't think GO is much different than this.

I think he was referring to the timelapse videos. Who wouldn't want to see out the front window of a go train? It's bad enough that we lost that opportunity on line one when the TRs came.

 

[smallspy]

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.

 

[Allandale25]

^ 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?

 

[smallspy]

^ 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?

That's correct. Much as today when trains enter the USRC, and transfer from CN RTCs to the staff in the various towers.

Dan
Toronto, Ont.

 

[mdrejhon]

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.

 

[Northern Light]

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

 

[ShonTron]

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.

 

[narduch]

That's good news about the UPX start times. It was impossible to take it if you had a 6:30 am flight.

 

[smallspy]

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.

 

[robmausser]

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

MetroLAKESHOREinx should be the name of this agency.

 

[hw621]

So that's it? Do we expect service increase on other lines as well?

 

[canarob]

So that's it? Do we expect service increase on other lines as well?

Not until Lakeshore has wifi and food service.

Seriously though, I think Stouffville weekend service was scheduled to start this summer?

 

[hw621]

Not until Lakeshore has wifi and food service.

Seriously though, I think Stouffville weekend service was scheduled to start this summer?

I heard from the forum but nothing official yet.

 

[Streety McCarface]

Still no Kitchener Weekend Service? Wasn't that promised back in 2016? And what about 12 car trains? nothing has been done at Bramalae.