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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

Coruscanti Cognoscente said:
I really detest that the last outbound train is at 7:10 pm on the Milton line. Forces me to rush out after drinks with work colleagues as none of us want to deal with the post-train mess that is Milton now.
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What do you expect GO to do about it when Metrolinx/Provinces can't have a real talk with CPKC as how the corridor can be upgraded to 4 tracks along with a fly under at the Humber River as well the cost to do it??

3rd track was to be in place by 2011, but only a few locations has that 3rd track today.

The Liberals ran on an 2014 platform to do the Milton Line at over $2 billion to do it and disappeared after the election.

Where is the PC on this issue??
 
Maybe some people that rode GO way back in the day might know, GO used to use an entire font styled like the G and O in promotional ads and notices, I’m recreating it right now and I’m not quite sure when they stopped using it, maybe someone here knows?
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Willybru21 said:
Maybe some people that rode GO way back in the day might know, GO used to use an entire font styled like the G and O in promotional ads and notices, I’m recreating it right now and I’m not quite sure when they stopped using it, maybe someone here knows?View attachment 504811
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The most I've seen of the font is the entire GO Transit logo. Apparently a full version of the font was made a decade or two ago and was posted on the internet, but that's probably lost by now.
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Took a dive into the GO Typeface:

Over the years [Gangon/Valkus] had developed a good working relationship with the advertising agency, McConnell Eastman. They were the ad agency for CN and had the contract to produce an brand for the Ontario government and the new transit system for the city of Toronto. With the support of CN, Gagnon/Valkus was given a contract to develop the [GOTransit logo] under the umbrella of McConnell Eastman.”

At the time, Gangon/Valkus was owned by Jim Valkus who opened the office in Montreal and partnered with painter/filmmaker/designer Charles Gagnon, to develop the CN corporate identity as well as to compete for Expo ‘67 contracts.

Fox remembers how the team came to a quick resolution to the project. They wanted to bring the initials of the Government of Ontario, into a unified logo. “I started working on it conceptually right away. We started thumbnail sketches and in one of those surprising things that happens every now and again, the actual concept of the GO symbol came up very quickly. We were thinking of two circles with a letter “T” somewhere in them. We had cut out two circles, then literally put a square into the circle, then “Bingo,” there was the G, in green, and we could lay a white “T”
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https://descan.ca/designcurrency/the-forgotten-history/#:~:text=They were the ad agency,the umbrella of McConnell Eastman.”
 
RS3488 said:
The most I've seen of the font is the entire GO Transit logo. Apparently a full version of the font was made a decade or two ago and was posted on the internet, but that's probably lost by now.
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The font appeared multiple times in old advertisements, and with multiple variants too:
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Willybru21 said:
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Love that CIBC add.
The "special hours" from 8:00 to 5:30, which I was a kid then but recall in the 80's most bank branches would still only open at 9:00 and close at 4:00 p.m, so that actually was a big deal to be open until 5:30.
Also love the reference to special "on-line computers"; the first early days where your updated daily account balance was accessible for all branches to access without them having to phone around to verify things.
 
Richard White said:
What the hell was GO Marine?
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Looks like it might have been a branding experiment to expand the GO brand that didn’t get anywhere. The Manitoulin Island ferry is still operated by a provincial agency (Owen Sound Navigation), as is the Peele Island ferry. The Wolfe Island and Glenora ferries are operated by the MTO.

Nothing more than that. GO Transit was never going to operate ships hundreds of kilometres from its Toronto base.
 
ShonTron said:
Looks like it might have been a branding experiment to expand the GO brand that didn’t get anywhere. The Manitoulin Island ferry is still operated by a provincial agency (Owen Sound Navigation), as is the Peele Island ferry. The Wolfe Island and Glenora ferries are operated by the MTO.
Nothing more than that. GO Transit was never going to operate ships hundreds of kilometres from its Toronto base.
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I made a map of the ferry service that was proposed:
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KevinT said:
Just the Chi-Cheemaun by the looks of it.
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The ad is a year or two after the Ministry of Transportation took over ferry operations. Initially it was under Ontario Northland; perhaps they were thinking of merging or branding all three provincial agencies (GO Transit, Ontario Northland, and Owen Sound Transportation Company) in one.

They do seem to have been having more fun with their livery recently than Metrolinx.

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