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[SaugeenJunction]

Starting a thread for progress on Grimsby GO Station.

• Metrolinx blog post on progress here
• Niagara Region project page here
• Upcoming PIC slides here

Good to see some wind in the sails of this project! Some key slides below!

 

[crs1026]

Seems very odd that the initial land package is furthest from the highway and requires traffic to pass through a residential area.
The statement that the area can be moved away from car dependency seems quite unrealistic. I wonder how much active transportation infrastructure is proposed and how many GO customers it can serve effectively..

- Paul

 

[SaugeenJunction]

Seems very odd that the initial land package is furthest from the highway and requires traffic to pass through a residential area.
The statement that the area can be moved away from car dependency seems quite unrealistic. I wonder how much active transportation infrastructure is proposed and how many GO customers it can serve effectively..

- Paul

Assume this is due to constraints from CN and other factors.

 

[Sauga89]

Seems very odd that the initial land package is furthest from the highway and requires traffic to pass through a residential area.
The statement that the area can be moved away from car dependency seems quite unrealistic. I wonder how much active transportation infrastructure is proposed and how many GO customers it can serve effectively..

- Paul

Niagara regional council discussed this station last year. I haven't re-watched the council meeting to re-fresh my memory, but I wrote this summary at the time.

Just copying this over from the GO service thread.

Here is the link to the Youtube video where this was presented to the Niagara regional council. The presenter says CN is open to the possibility of selling the track.

Also, these slides are not the full discussion. The council spent an hour and twenty minutes in non-public discussion about the Grimsby GO station development prior to this public presentation. The public presentation only took 40 minutes.

Of note, they are looking at getting a private developer to pay for the Beamsville/Lincoln station, similar to Woodbine GO.

Plus, it sounds like CN shot down the idea of a Grimsby station on the north side of the tracks, and the province didn't want to budget for a pedestrian tunnel underneath the tracks, so the region pivoted to a south side station. The region wants an exemption to skip the TPAP process for Grimsby GO.

 

[NY99]

Im fine with a greenfield location in theory, but the fact that the entire western part of the site appears undevelopable doesn't bode well for its intensification potential.

 

[crs1026]

I can see CN's point in that it makes no sense to be crossing trains from south to north and back again.....but if ML can't afford a tunnel, why build anything at all? The existing bus station and parking lot will be orphaned, and any bus route that loops off the QEW will tke tht much longer.

- Paul

 

[SaugeenJunction]

Some action on site, including site clean up starting this week. Notice from Metrolinx here.