GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

[Allandale25]

A Metrolinx presentation to the City of Brampton included this diagram suggesting that at build-out (4-8 years in the future) there would be 4 tracks - two over the grade separation for GO and two under the separation for CN. The Credit bridge is currently built for 3 tracks, with 2 installed.
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The current signal bridges between Mt Pleasant and Georgetown are set up for 3 tracks (with 2 present), and possibly the 3rd track might be installed before the grade separation is built but that's not confirmed.
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That track plan diagram wasn't in the presentation Metrolinx gave to the City of Brampton. It was in this "Metrolinx has published a set of documents containing the “Initial Business Case” for the GO Transit Regional Express Rail (GO/RER) network." and specifically Appendix A.

GO/RER Details Emerge in Business Case Analysis

Metrolinx has published a set of documents containing the “Initial Business Case” for the GO Transit Regional Express Rail (GO/RER) network. Updated Dec. 13, 2022: Due to a reorganizati…

stevemunro.ca

 

[ARG1]

Hourly to Kitchener as the other person stated.

Right now as it stands I dont know if there is demand for 30 minutes. Probably need to wait and see how hourly generates interest.

Kitchener-Waterloo is not only a major university town, but also a rapidly growing tech hub with major companies like Google setting up shop. As such even if there isn't demand today, there absolutely will be demand within 5-10 years.

It also helps that as a major uni town, it has absolutely massive bursts of demand. Earlier this year I had to travel from Highway 407 Station to Waterloo on Sunday, and experienced how a completely packed double decker 41 fully emptied out with everyone marching out to get on the 30A at Bramalea (for the love of god bring back the 25F already). It also didn't help that the ride itself was slow due to all of the people driving to KW on the 401. It wasn't even a long weekend or reading week or anything, this was just a run of the mill Sunday.

 

[Bureaucromancer]

Kitchener-Waterloo is not only a major university town, but also a rapidly growing tech hub with major companies like Google setting up shop. As such even if there isn't demand today, there absolutely will be demand within 5-10 years.

It also helps that as a major uni town, it has absolutely massive bursts of demand. Earlier this year I had to travel from Highway 407 Station to Waterloo on Sunday, and experienced how a completely packed double decker 41 fully emptied out with everyone marching out to get on the 30A at Bramalea (for the love of god bring back the 25F already). It also didn't help that the ride itself was slow due to all of the people driving to KW on the 401. It wasn't even a long weekend or reading week or anything, this was just a run of the mill Sunday.

That also has significant on line local traffic potential if the service is anything like frequent. This is a corridor that needs frequency independent of it's capacity requirements.

 

[crs1026]

That also has significant on line local traffic potential if the service is anything like frequent. This is a corridor that needs frequency independent of it's capacity requirements.

Stop-and-go traffic on 401 from Tremaine to Town Line is now a 2-way, all-day, 7/week reality. That line could fill 30 minute trains today, 15 at peak. Ridiculous that ML isn't moving faster.

- Paul

 

[innsertnamehere]

Stop-and-go traffic on 401 from Tremaine to Town Line is now a 2-way, all-day, 7/week reality. That line could fill 30 minute trains today, 15 at peak. Ridiculous that ML isn't moving faster.

- Paul

MTO is currently conducting the final EA required to widen the 401 to 10-lanes (4+HOV in each direction) from Milton to Cambridge

Highway 401 Milton

 

[nfitz]

MTO is currently conducting the final EA required to widen the 401 to 10-lanes (4+HOV in each direction) from Milton to Cambridge

Highway 401 Milton

There's a thread about this project at - https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...ighway-8-to-highway-410-mto-u-c-planned.10054

Ericmacm mentioned the newish website in a post last April - https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...0-mto-u-c-planned.10054/page-106#post-2080438