GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

[innsertnamehere]

thats the planned rollout from the transit panel, I'd take the dates with a bit of salt.

 

[TOareaFan]

thats the planned rollout from the transit panel, I'd take the dates with a bit of salt.

Oh....I might, then, even tone down your description and suggest it is the recommended rollout from the panel. Despite the panel's assertions and suggestions, the government and the Minister denied the panel had any mandate in determining which projects were built and when.

 

[canarob]

Not sure about dates or why RH would get more service first, but Stouffville is definitely being twinned: http://www2.markham.ca/markham/ccbs...21/Stouffville Corridor Rail Presentation.pdf

 

[nfitz]

Yup, that's my point. The delivery schedule is before a lot of the AD2W improvements in the Next Wave are supposed to come online. That would seem to indicate some kind of incremental increase in service between current levels and AD2W on all lines.

I'd think they already have enough equipment for AD2W on most of the lines. The extra equipment is surely to meet peak demands.

Note, that while this 65-car order arrives in 2016 and 2017, that GO is currently receiving a 60-car order from 2013 to 2015. Here's the news about that from 18 months ago - http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/...d-bilevel-coaches-ordered-for-go-transit.html

 

[TOareaFan]

I'd think they already have enough equipment for AD2W on most of the lines. The extra equipment is surely to meet peak demands.

Excellent point...I think most of the fleet is parked during off peak.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Anyone know what's going on with the Richmond hill extension to stouffville road? I wasn't aware that it was funded but the go website says it's opening I 2014. It's also not listed in expansion projects, you have to go to the EA section to find it. It also isn't very clear whether the east rail facility includes the bowmanville extension or if it's just te matienence facility.

 

[gweed123]

I'd think they already have enough equipment for AD2W on most of the lines. The extra equipment is surely to meet peak demands.

Note, that while this 65-car order arrives in 2016 and 2017, that GO is currently receiving a 60-car order from 2013 to 2015. Here's the news about that from 18 months ago - http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/...d-bilevel-coaches-ordered-for-go-transit.html

Good points, thanks!

 

[CDL.TO]

Anyone know what's going on with the Richmond hill extension to stouffville road? I wasn't aware that it was funded but the go website says it's opening I 2014. It's also not listed in expansion projects, you have to go to the EA section to find it. It also isn't very clear whether the east rail facility includes the bowmanville extension or if it's just te matienence facility.

Gormley (Stouffville Rd) is scheduled for 2015.
In Durham, only the maintenance facility is funded. The Bowmanville extension is unfunded.

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

Gormley (Stouffville Rd) is scheduled for 2015.
In Durham, only the maintenance facility is funded. The Bowmanville extension is unfunded.

Really? I thought that was all paid for. 4 stations and just new tracks? If you would have asked me 7 or 8 years ago, I would have said Hamilton would take longer.

 

[Voltz]

Really? I thought that was all paid for. 4 stations and just new tracks?

And a new bridge over the 401.

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

And a new bridge over the 401.

Ok I see it now.

 

[JasonParis]

Apologies if this has been posted already, but just stumbled upon this on Metrolinx's Flickr...

It's a rendering for Hamilton's new James North Station.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Its too bad its only going to get 2 peak trains when it opens, Hamilton could really use all day GO.

 

[salsa]

When will all day GO happen?

 

[TOareaFan]

Apologies if this has been posted already, but just stumbled upon this on Metrolinx's Flickr...

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It's a rendering for Hamilton's new James North Station.

That's not a curved platform is it?