GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

[ShonTron]

The full PDF schedules are available on the GO website now, so there’s nothing new with the train service.

I would have liked to see some weekend train service to Kitchener to match the weekday runs and relieve some overcrowding of the 30. I’d also like to see a return of the 39 (Bramalea-Guelph express) 7 days a week in the meantime.

 

[E•MO•TION]

All this hope for additional service but the unfortunate reality is that Alstom does not appear to have a sufficient number of crews to fulfill these wishes. Although they have been aggressively hiring CSA’s (I’ve heard over 100 since the start of the year), I’m told that head-end training has been slow and has since been suspended as Alstom is not in the position to hand over partially-trained Conductors and Engineers to ONxpress in January; training which takes substantially longer than training for CSA.

 

[Fritter]

Hindsight is always 20/20, but I wonder if someone is kicking themselves for laying off crews during the hight of the pandemic.

 

[Bojaxs]

Hindsight is always 20/20, but I wonder if someone is kicking themselves for laying off crews during the hight of the pandemic.

I imagine they would have been called back by now.