GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

[Woodbridge_Heights]

Unless there is a route I can't picture, you'd have to get to T3 and go out the far (north) exit - where the out-of-town vans and limos pool - and walk out American Dr. That end of T3 is actually quite close to Airport Rd.

Or take the inter terminal train out to the parking lots/hotel and walk from there. There's sidewalks on those streets

 

[Woodbridge_Heights]

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I'll offer my own data point.

Back in late Aug on a typically busy Toronto weekend (Multiple events at BMO, SBA, RC, Bud Stage etc), I was at BMO while my wife was visiting friends downtown. We arranged to meet at Union and take the train (LE) home together. When my train pulled into Union my wife was only able to board the train because I told her which platform the train was on. Apparently, according to her, the notice boards in Union made no mention of this train's arrival at Union. Almost as if it were a pocket train trying to avoid the rush of the crowd at Union from swamping the train.

This seems to be a practice GO uses during TFC games, but probably should be deploying more often.

 

[WB62]

I know a lot of untrue rumours and stuff comes up in these forums, but yesterday a CSA told me that the Alstom crews requested to be able to strike or something along those lines.

 

[WB62]

I strongly disagree with naming stations like this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1577323977739063298

 

[Bordercollie]

I strongly disagree with naming stations like this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1577323977739063298

You can disagree all you want but if it helps with providing better service I don't see why that's a problem. Maybe they can build a coffee shop or something in the station's. Vending machines would be a good start.

 

[Northern Light]

I strongly disagree with naming stations like this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1577323977739063298

Agreed, its tacky; its also bad for wayfinding. Station names should be associated to cross streets or neighbourhoods in which they are located.

 

[Northern Light]

You can disagree all you want but if it helps with providing better service I don't see why that's a problem. Maybe they can build a coffee shop or something in the station's. Vending machines would be a good start.

a) Why would it result in better service?

b) Durham College is a government-funded entity, so this is money from one government agency being fed to another.

 

[WB62]

You can disagree all you want but if it helps with providing better service I don't see why that's a problem. Maybe they can build a coffee shop or something in the station's. Vending machines would be a good start.

I’m sure needing to replace over 900 maps and station wayfinding, as well as confusing customers isn’t worth the few extra thousands of dollars they got for it.

 

[WB62]

Where does it stop? Will this be the GO map in 15 years?

 

[dowlingm]

We don't sponsor police stations or fire houses. We sponsor hospitals and transit vehicles, putting private entity names on infrastructure while providing a tiny amount of the costs, and print ads on the back of library receipts and linking out from the library catalogue to remind patrons they are sponging off the taxpayers when they could be making Heather Reisman richer.

What we deem must be sponsored/fundraised and what is paid from taxes without question says a lot about our society.

 

[LNahid2000]

I strongly disagree with naming stations like this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1577323977739063298

Wait...so that isn't an entrance to Durham College??

 

[dowlingm]

Wait...so that isn't an entrance to Durham College??

That's a negative Ghostrider (map h/t asifintoronto on Twitter)

 

[ShonTron]

You can disagree all you want but if it helps with providing better service I don't see why that's a problem. Maybe they can build a coffee shop or something in the station's. Vending machines would be a good start.

Bus wraps have never been credited for improving service. All they do is wreck the customer experience.

If naming rights brought in real money, Philadelphia would have great transit service.

 

[APTA-2048]

Bus wraps have never been credited for improving service. All they do is wreck the customer experience.

If naming rights brought in real money, Philadelphia would have great transit service.

At least that Wawa station worked out.

 

[ShonTron]

At least that Wawa station worked out.

That was a rare example of a naming rights that kinda worked. Wawa (the chain of convenience stores and gas stations in Eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Metro Washington, not the town in Northern Ontario) is headquartered in the community of Wawa, PA, and so the only thing different about that new station is that it’s the Wawa goose logo accompanying the station name that is located in Wawa, PA.

I was thinking more about NRG Station (formerly AT&T Station, and originally Patterson Station) and Jefferson Station (formerly Market East Station).