nfitz
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Doesn't appeal to the Scarborough crowd then?Knowing Stoufville folk, there is no way they are going to Caribanna.
Doesn't appeal to the Scarborough crowd then?Knowing Stoufville folk, there is no way they are going to Caribanna.
Why would they not simply buy one at the station? The GO Website says that ticket sales at Newmarket GO Station are from 10:25-18:00 on weekends.I like how the bright minds at GO Transit provide weekend service on the Barrie Line, but never thought of putting a ticket vending machine at the Newmarket Station, and the agency is left closed and locked up Saturdays and Sundays. How is one supposed to buy a ticket?
Do you have a URL for this "official answer"?The official answer is to go to the Newmarket bus terminal (I presume drive there) and go back to the station.
Really?Some things at GO Transit never change.
Presumably they haven't changed the sign on the door for the temporary weekend service. The hours and lack of a TVM seem very clear on the GO website. Presumably a TVM will be added if service other than peak service is maintained.I arrived at Newmarket after 6PM. The sign on the door had only weekday peak hours open. The doors were locked. There was no TVM. There were three more northbound trains and two more southbound trains. I called afterwards, and got the official answer from a GO operator, who said that you simply go to the ticket agency at Newmarket Bus Terminal.
Presumably they haven't changed the sign on the door for the temporary weekend service. The hours and lack of a TVM seem very clear on the GO website. Presumably a TVM will be added if service other than peak service is maintained.
It's a 5-minute drive to the GO Terminal, if one really needs a ticket. Presumably most will simply use Presto though.
I can't imagine anyone is going to arrive blind at a GO station without figuring out in advance how to get a ticket. How many people were boarding at Newmarket on a weekend evening?Not to mention if you were a car driver (given that assumption), it's a five minute drive there, five minute drive back, and who knows how long to buy the ticket if there's a line.
I didn't say it excuses the situation; it should be fixed. I'm just surprised you'd maintain that nothing changes, given how much has changed on the ticketing front in the last few months. With the switch-over to Presto almost complete, I'd be surprised that they'd be keen to drop a lot of the old ticket vending machines in new locations.There were at least 15 boarding that train there that evening. Still does not excuse the situation no matter how much you want argue about it.
I can't imagine anyone is going to arrive blind at a GO station without figuring out in advance how to get a ticket. How many people were boarding at Newmarket on a weekend evening?
I'm surprised you insist that some things never change at GO. Surely the recent extension of ticketing hours at many locations that haven't seen signficant changes to the schedule in over 40 years suggests otherwise. As would the recent addition of weekend rail service to Newmarket.
I'm just surprised you'd maintain that nothing changes, given how much has changed on the ticketing front in the last few months.
I can't imagine anyone is going to arrive blind at a GO station without figuring out in advance how to get a ticket.
Yes, more I think about it your right.Really? Isn't there a general assumption that at stations you can buy tickets? Even at a bus stop there is a way to use cash to board, with a station you would certainly expect a method to use cash.
And of course, every train trip appears to have the oh-so-friendly GO-PO to nab you. Good luck if you have a Presto snafu.