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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

ARG1 said:
Service Cuts for GO:

Train Schedule Changes | Service Updates | GO Transit

We’re making time changes to some weekday Lakeshore East and Lakeshore West train trips, some weekday and weekend Barrie line trips, and to some GO bus trips.
www.gotransit.com www.gotransit.com

Highlights (or I guess Lowlights):
  • Weekend Service on Barrie and Stouffville Lines now only served by busses
  • LSE and LSW weekend service now hourly
  • Weekend service to Niagara Falls Discontinued
  • Weekday Service on LSW and LSE now half hourly, service to West Harbour still Hourly
  • London Line train now departs 8 minutes later (now there's a silver lining, I assume this is due to the Guelph Speed upgrades)
  • Stouffville and Barrie Line trains retain most midday service, however evening service after 9pm now replaced by busses. To compensate, extra trains to Allandale and Old Elm are provided.
  • There were a few schedule changes to trains to Kitchener, but I don't know enough about those services to comment on them
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How temporary is this?
When I clicked "more information" on the schedule page, it just refreshed the same page.
 
I just got an online survey about transit (I get Petro Points for playing). Despite answering that I haven't used any transit since, well, forever, and live in a rural area, it proceeded to ask me all sorts of questions about GO, Metrolinz, UPX, etc. and how I feel about their service. I finally exited. Surveys are weird.
 
lenaitch said:
I just got an online survey about transit (I get Petro Points for playing). Despite answering that I haven't used any transit since, well, forever, and live in a rural area, it proceeded to ask me all sorts of questions about GO, Metrolinz, UPX, etc. and how I feel about their service. I finally exited. Surveys are weird.
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We must belong to the same survey panel. I got the same survey and also, despite having used GO once since the pandemic started, was asked a long list of questions.
 
PinkLucy said:
We must belong to the same survey panel. I got the same survey and also, despite having used GO once since the pandemic started, was asked a long list of questions.
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Ya, I hate it when they start asking about 'did x make me feel valued', or ' was x an important part of your experience'. It's a damned toaster from Canadian Tire!
 
PinkLucy said:
We must belong to the same survey panel. I got the same survey and also, despite having used GO once since the pandemic started, was asked a long list of questions.
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I did something similar, but I collect VIA Preference points. They add up for the occasional trip to Montreal or Ottawa.
 
reaperexpress said:
I do. Here's a link to my google drive folder
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Looking at the June 2013 Kitchener schedule

It used to take 2 hours exactly from Union To Kitchener all stops, if it had an express option then it would have been 1hr 53 minutes.

The trip time is now as of January 2022 1hr 43 minutes and potentially if express was still offered the time being 1hr 36 minutes. So 1hr 30 minutes is entirely possible if Georgetown is fixed up.

Adding the historical 1hr 10 minutes Kitchener-London time. (Although I think Metrolinx could save another 10 minutes) we could have a 2hr 40 minute London-Toronto time.
 
Krypto98 said:
Looking at the June 2013 Kitchener schedule

It used to take 2 hours exactly from Union To Kitchener all stops, if it had an express option then it would have been 1hr 53 minutes.

The trip time is now as of January 2022 1hr 43 minutes and potentially if express was still offered the time being 1hr 36 minutes. So 1hr 30 minutes is entirely possible if Georgetown is fixed up.

Adding the historical 1hr 10 minutes Kitchener-London time. (Although I think Metrolinx could save another 10 minutes) we could have a 2hr 40 minute London-Toronto time.
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Before you spend too much time entering data from the Kitchener line, you might want to check out (and make a copy of) my Kitchener Line Historical Schedules spreadsheet.

However, please note that there are probably small errors in my versions of the timetables, given that I fill most of the trips in with click-and-drag formulas. For example I recently noticed that my version of the October 2021 timetable was missing the stop at Etobicoke North for the westbound 17:49 express, and the times at subsequent stations were wrong as a result.
 
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Krypto98 said:
Looking at the June 2013 Kitchener schedule

It used to take 2 hours exactly from Union To Kitchener all stops, if it had an express option then it would have been 1hr 53 minutes.

The trip time is now as of January 2022 1hr 43 minutes and potentially if express was still offered the time being 1hr 36 minutes. So 1hr 30 minutes is entirely possible if Georgetown is fixed up.

Adding the historical 1hr 10 minutes Kitchener-London time. (Although I think Metrolinx could save another 10 minutes) we could have a 2hr 40 minute London-Toronto time.
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Here's a quick table with the Kitchener line travel times since 2014.
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Since some periods didn't have express trips from Kitchener, I filled in those travel times by reducing the local travel time by the same amount as in the most similar schedule which did have both express and local trips.

Note that some of the time savings which appeared in 2020 were due to reduced ridership and thus reduced dwell times. That should be taken into account when summarising track improvements.
 
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