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Frank the Tank
Maybe they blow their off-peak policing budget around TFC matches.....certainly no shortgage of uniforms around stations and on trains on those days.
I can imagine they do given the nature of some TFC fans.
Maybe they blow their off-peak policing budget around TFC matches.....certainly no shortgage of uniforms around stations and on trains on those days.
I can imagine they do given the nature of some TFC fans.
It seems weird to me that GO don't offer rail service on at least the Stouffville line on DVP closure weekend? Between the Gardiner lane restrictions, the QEW crash, the DVP closure and the marathon road restrictions, then add 35000 people heading to the ACC which to be fair was harder to predict given not even the time of the game was known until the day before, it seems like this was a pretty awful weekend for Toronto roads.
The DVP is proper f***ed most weekends all summer given all the events and closures. The fact that we don't have any type of weekend summer service is appalling.
I'd be fine if Stouffville was the next line to get all-day, hourly service (rather than Kitchener, my hometown line, or Milton, the busiest after Lakeshore). Stouffville has the advantage of being 100% Metrolinx-owned with minimal freight service (only a few customers in Scarborough and Markham). At least from 8AM to 10PM Saturdays and until 8PM Sundays with buses taking over after that.
As mentioned earlier, once the Georgetown South/UPX work is complete, there's nothing technically stopping GO from offering hourly two-way service on Kitchener as far as Mount Pleasant - there's enough capacity for CN to operate without GO being it their way. Milton's tough.
I'd be fine if Stouffville was the next line to get all-day, hourly service (rather than Kitchener, my hometown line, or Milton, the busiest after Lakeshore). Stouffville has the advantage of being 100% Metrolinx-owned with minimal freight service (only a few customers in Scarborough and Markham). At least from 8AM to 10PM Saturdays and until 8PM Sundays with buses taking over after that.
As mentioned earlier, once the Georgetown South/UPX work is complete, there's nothing technically stopping GO from offering hourly two-way service on Kitchener as far as Mount Pleasant - there's enough capacity for CN to operate without GO being it their way. Milton's tough.
As someone who lives in Markham who desperately want to take a train Downtown (instead of driving), I completely agree. They do need to double track this route though (study is already underway). Otherwise, 1 train takes about 1.5 hour round trip (too long). IMO this will better serve north scarborough and markham better than the Scarborough subway extension.
Passing track isn't long enough to be useful, there is a reason the current off peak trains short turn at unionville. The passing track is almost never used, it's too short for moving trains to go by each other. It's only really useful for deadheading to mount joy to do additional peak trips if GO ever decided to do that without expanding the lincolnville layover yard.
That said, hourly off peak service is possible to unionville today.
Even that would be better than nothing. I'd imagine that people would much prefer driving to Unionville than driving the whole way into Toronto.
Unionville is in a crummy location - built to maximize parking availabilty and little else. The GO station used to be at Old Unionville, the historic Toronto and Nipissing/Midland/Grand Trunk/CN station until 1991.
Press Release from MTO:
http://news.ontario.ca/mto/en/2014/03/better-go-transit-service-for-gtha-commuters.html
Starting June 28, there will be two new weekday morning trains on the Barrie line from Maple to Union Station. There will also be more weekend trips on the Lakeshore lines, with more details to follow in early June.
I don't like how the first train from Union northbound on the weekend Barrie service is at 12:40 - I would have liked to see an earlier departure, even by an hour. Pretty much the same schedule as last year. GO's weekend services should try to serve people from Toronto getting out to Barrie/Simcoe County (I've done this last summer) as much as people going into the city for the day/weekend.