mdrejhon
Senior Member
A bunch of West Harbour GO pictures I took Tuesday evening.
I witnessed a GO train departing the station, it must be fitting several times and packing the ballast.
Shows the foundation of the multilevel parking garage under construction. First GO station in Hamilton that will have lots of free parking, so its role will be to displace some cars from clogging the 403 to Aldershot.
Parking garage (2016?) entrance will be roughly on the third or fourth level (same level as James/Bay) and cars can go either up or down levels to park. According to the crane height, the parking garage will probably be eight or so levels tall, give or take. Probably towers four or five stories above James/Bay as a result. qThat should make for some interesting parking space hunts, hopefully it has electronic parking-spot indicators. Supposed to be open by 2017, could be partially open next year. This garage is between Bay and MacNab. There is room for a second parking garage of equal size, to west of Bay, for a total of 600 cars.
Also shows that the track is a spur for now, so no through service yet to Stoney Creek / Niagara Falls, but you can see the underpass that the track will go underneath, to go beyond. A little further work in 2017 or even 2016 should enable the ability of Niagara summer trains to stop at West Harbor, as an obvious useful stop -- and those will enable summer weekend two-way Hamilton service as a bonus.
Also shows the station entrance on MacNab that will open before PanAm. Tight call to pave the sidewalk paths to open the station in just a few days from today!.
No entry on James Street for PanAm, as far as I can see, that entrance is a bit far behind. But I can really see it will open from MacNab at first.
Even though only two GOtrains will run from this at first -- looking at it closely, it is a seriously real GO station that will handle both cars and pedestrians very well. I expect West Harbor to capture the main Hamilton park-n-ride role, while downtown captures the B-Line transit audience, but with a fair bit of overlap between the two. Toronto does not even have two GO stations only two kilometers and only 20 minute walk apart!
Station begins permanent weekday service in just one week from now!
I witnessed a GO train departing the station, it must be fitting several times and packing the ballast.
Shows the foundation of the multilevel parking garage under construction. First GO station in Hamilton that will have lots of free parking, so its role will be to displace some cars from clogging the 403 to Aldershot.
Parking garage (2016?) entrance will be roughly on the third or fourth level (same level as James/Bay) and cars can go either up or down levels to park. According to the crane height, the parking garage will probably be eight or so levels tall, give or take. Probably towers four or five stories above James/Bay as a result. qThat should make for some interesting parking space hunts, hopefully it has electronic parking-spot indicators. Supposed to be open by 2017, could be partially open next year. This garage is between Bay and MacNab. There is room for a second parking garage of equal size, to west of Bay, for a total of 600 cars.
Also shows that the track is a spur for now, so no through service yet to Stoney Creek / Niagara Falls, but you can see the underpass that the track will go underneath, to go beyond. A little further work in 2017 or even 2016 should enable the ability of Niagara summer trains to stop at West Harbor, as an obvious useful stop -- and those will enable summer weekend two-way Hamilton service as a bonus.
Also shows the station entrance on MacNab that will open before PanAm. Tight call to pave the sidewalk paths to open the station in just a few days from today!.
No entry on James Street for PanAm, as far as I can see, that entrance is a bit far behind. But I can really see it will open from MacNab at first.
Even though only two GOtrains will run from this at first -- looking at it closely, it is a seriously real GO station that will handle both cars and pedestrians very well. I expect West Harbor to capture the main Hamilton park-n-ride role, while downtown captures the B-Line transit audience, but with a fair bit of overlap between the two. Toronto does not even have two GO stations only two kilometers and only 20 minute walk apart!
Station begins permanent weekday service in just one week from now!
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