raptor
Senior Member
or, they could build a cheap chainlink fence, no?
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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)
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lenaitch
Senior Member
Across the active ROW?
raptor
Senior Member
along, not across
crs1026
Superstar
hw621
Senior Member
Last time I heard about Stouffville weekend was June some year....
canarob
Senior Member
This government needs a good news story badly, so I'm hoping we at least get something substantial in the fall.
Richard White
Senior Member
Turbo 2.0 on the Lakeshore line?
smallspy
Senior Member
Contrary to Mr. Verster's comments, those cattle grids (thanks for reminding me of the name DSC) have been in place for quite some time to try and prevent wildlife from accessing the ROW. Apparently deer strikes are a pretty common thing on the north end of the Stouffville Line.
They may also be usefully for helping deter human tresspassers as well, but that was not necessary the original intent of them.
I'm still trying to flesh out all of the details, but it sounds like there will be evening and weekend service coming to the Stouffville and Kitchener Lines (as far as Unionville and Bramalea, respectively), as well as an extension of the 15 minute mid-day service to the Lakeshore West line.
This is still preliminary however, and subject to approval by CN and the MTO.
Dan
innsertnamehere
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15 minute mid-day on Lakeshore West will be great. The current "20 minute" service to Oakville (really alternating 15&30 minute service) is just.. odd.
Same with weekend service, though it's a shame it has to be cut to Unionville and Bramalea.
Same with weekend service, though it's a shame it has to be cut to Unionville and Bramalea.
robmausser
Senior Member
It was delayed I believe due to construction work on weekends for double tracking.
Neutrino
Senior Member
Given the high volume of weekend downtown bound traffic on the DVP, the demand is already there for weekend Stouffville service. I avoid downtown on weekends even when I'd like to go because DVP traffic is just too bad, and the TTC is even slower. Weekend Stouffville service would be great for me.
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mdrejhon
Senior Member
I still have memories of my 47-minute GO train ride between Toronto and West Harbour back in 2015. Yes, it was really that fast. A Pan Am train delayed 30 minute departure, made some amazing time and nearly caught up to its timetable.
Someday, we could get that as regular service.
hw621
Senior Member
One can dream...
robmausser
Senior Member
Reminds me when I take the GO train from Oshawa back to Toronto and sometimes the VIA rail train blasts past us at 160km/h
It feels like this scene
Fritter
Active Member
There are 2 trains every weekday from Oshawa direct non-stop to Union leaving at 1:52 and 7pm that take 40 minutes for the trip, compared to the regular 1hr and 3 minutes.