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I would disagree. The picture here shows what is called the Great Hall East Wing. The Bay GO Concourse (upper level) is a totally different area, and actually at a different elevation to the East Wing. The area under the skylight and opening in the floor (picture foreground) is the Front Street...

Thank you for that explanation.

I see. So my next question would be this: would it cause that much of an issue to go from 8 to 10 trains per hour through that stretch? Or would it make a difference that Go trains serving E. North would be using Track 1, closest to the tunnel work zone?

UP and Go trains pass each other around E. North station or the Humber River Valley all the time. Whether or not they are choreographed to do that and specifically not within the tunnel itself I couldn’t say. But isn’t the speed limit in the tunnel somewhat limited to allow trains to pass each...

I don’t understand why the 401/409 tunnel construction would prevent weekend trains on the Kitchener line. UP runs just the same.

But the Super Lo DD buses can get into Union Station. The 16 Hamilton Express runs majority if not all Super Lo’s The 34 & 40 Airport routes run through Yorkdale to the airport as well. I thought York Mills was the only major terminal left inaccessible to even the Super Lo buses

Both of the above replies are exactly what I was referring to. Thanks @Allandale25 & @Krypto98. ?

I don’t understand why they couldn’t run an hourly weekend schedule even as far as Mount Pleasant, and even extend the odd trip to Kitchener, given a similar timetable to the weekday midday schedule. Work on the 401/409 tunnel are off-corridor and the constraint with Etobicoke North and UP train...

If my math is generally right, there are currently some 2,328 total train trips in a 7 day week. (Yes I went through each schedule and counted!) Even going back to April 2019 as the paper suggests, 16% works out to be well over 300 weekly trips. I don't know where they could add that many trips...

Ok. So a thought on the new evening service to Brampton & points beyond. Couldn’t help but notice that getting off the train at Bramalea & looking for a bus connect to Bramalea City Centre, a) The 36B pulled in to the Bramalea Go bus terminal at the same time as the train, yet did not wait for...

“Financial close on the Guideway is expected for approximately Summer 2019, with construction to start in approximately Fall 2019 and be completed in approximately mid-2023. Construction on the public realm elements will start in approximately 2023 and last until approximately Fall 2024.” Four...

I disagree. If the plan is still to go 15 minute frequency all day, then the time to do them would be now, instead of waiting until after such time as current work gets finished. And then we’re talking about disrupting a then-established (hopefully) steady service with multiple heavy...

Yes I read what Metrolinx had on the subject so far. Outside of Finch and Steele’s, however, there are a half-dozen other arteries that should have merited mention but have not been. I.e. Denison, Kennedy, McNicholl, Huntington etc. And again, if the plan is to separate some or all of these...

Off the current topic, so please forgive me. But does anyone know if the level crossings along the Stouffville Line, between the Scarborough Junction(?) and Unionville Go, are going to be separated? And if so, why not now, while the whole thing is still such a mess being worked on? Outside of...

Isn’t it just going to end up being dubbed ‘Line 7’ or whatever number we’re up to by the time it actually opens?

I do remember the four track/flyover thing. That’s what I was posting about earlier. It was before the RER only on Metrolinx owned track phase of announcements, when they thought to improve service on all 7 lines. Don’t quite remember if it was full system RER or some sort of steady AD2W pre RER...

But I thought some time ago that ML had a agreed-to plan in place to fully build out a two track corridor parallel to CP’s tracks on which it could move GO ops (stations etc), including a crossover/flyover. It was expensive but could feasibly be done.

That stretch of 410 from Steeles (or even Derry) north to Queen definitely does not clear by 6:30pm. I regularly see parking lot conditions well beyond 7 and even 8pm most weekday evenings. I never use that stretch of road during the pm rush or evenings until after 9pm. The HOV lane + 3 general...

I would have assumed that run throughs, separate pathing and minimal crossovers had to be a part of any service expansion plans for Union. They shouldn’t need any more fly unders anywhere. Just lay track using the right patterns. And (imho), they should have started with the 5/6 tracks in the...

Given the crowding we were seeing this week, I think it’s worth a tweet at least. Maybe less backpatting, just a short term solution to a noted problem. More announcement/press conference worthy would be how we would get more than hourly evening and weekend service and more daily service to...