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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)
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reaperexpress
Senior Member
In a way it's kind of good that the failure happened right before the PM peak, because the single-tracked lines (Stouffville and Barrie) don't have counter-peak service. So they can send out a bunch of trains at arbitrary times without being limited by the location of passing tracks to meet oncoming trains.
The schedules at this point are irrelevant (it sounds like they're just running to headways) but on paper this is the largest delay on a moving train that I've seen to date:
The service alert directs you to a link to see current departure information, but when I click it I get a message that there are no departures, which is clearly false because I can see trains departing on GO Tracker.
2 train per hour would be brutal for the Lakeshore lines given that they normally run 4 to 6 trains per hour during the PM peak. I would assume that for those lines it's a case of underpromise and overdeliver, since they need to run a lot of trains outbound anyway to get to their layover yards at the ends of the lines in order to start the morning service tomorrow. I hope they wouldn't just send out two local trains per hour and call it a day.
The Milton line is generally running on schedule because it is dispatched entirely by CP and TTR, not CN. The 16:55 departure from Union seems to have disappeared off GO Tracker, but via word of mouth I've heard it is actually running as per schedule.
The schedules at this point are irrelevant (it sounds like they're just running to headways) but on paper this is the largest delay on a moving train that I've seen to date:
This is incredibly vague to the point of being misleading. The tweet should have mentioned that it was only in reference to the PM Peak service today. Here's the actual message from the GO website. 30 minute is the target peak direction headway and counter-peak (where applicable) should be 30-60 minutes
The service alert directs you to a link to see current departure information, but when I click it I get a message that there are no departures, which is clearly false because I can see trains departing on GO Tracker.
2 train per hour would be brutal for the Lakeshore lines given that they normally run 4 to 6 trains per hour during the PM peak. I would assume that for those lines it's a case of underpromise and overdeliver, since they need to run a lot of trains outbound anyway to get to their layover yards at the ends of the lines in order to start the morning service tomorrow. I hope they wouldn't just send out two local trains per hour and call it a day.
The Milton line is generally running on schedule because it is dispatched entirely by CP and TTR, not CN. The 16:55 departure from Union seems to have disappeared off GO Tracker, but via word of mouth I've heard it is actually running as per schedule.
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sixrings
Senior Member
Wait Milton line is going to get trains every 30 minutes??
calimehtar
Active Member
How is it that the entire GO and UP systems go down because of a CN issue when, according to Wikipedia, GO owns 80% of its tracks?
reaperexpress
Senior Member
Read the earlier messages in this thread.
ARG1
Senior Member
Wait, is this news independent from what happened today?
I assume this is implying 30m Kitchener/Richmond Hill Line service soon?
Allandale25
Senior Member
No. People are pointing out on twitter the tweet from the reporter was poorly worded and may have given the wrong impression that this was a permanent change.
Jonny5
Senior Member
30 minute GO service from London to Peterborough and Niagara to Barrie all day every day confirmed!
Deadpool X
Senior Member
Just in - Bolton and Orangeville 30 min services also confirmed.
Dan416
Senior Member
Yeah since it was a CN issue the Milton trains seemed to be largely unaffected. My 17:55 train departed a few minutes late, but tbh that's pretty normal for that train. But Union itself was packed with delayed passengers today.
anb
Active Member
So this is basically the transit version of the Rogers outage that happened last year.
Seriously though after this, there will for sure be some people who will turn away from the train and going back/going to start driving again or carpool. This might be where they pull the 30 min all day service to Bramalea/Unionville and bring back 15 min all day to Oakville and Oshawa to try to win some riders back.
Usually I don't agree with some of your opinions, but this has to be some of the worst luck and now its somewhat understandable.It's not Kitchener. It is literally everything.
werid this usually only happens when I ride
Seriously though after this, there will for sure be some people who will turn away from the train and going back/going to start driving again or carpool. This might be where they pull the 30 min all day service to Bramalea/Unionville and bring back 15 min all day to Oakville and Oshawa to try to win some riders back.
littlewill1166
Active Member
The 17:55 train was cancelled, you were on the 17:25 train leaving 35 minutes late.
It was technically 8-15 minute peak service depending on how you measure it.
Transsee shows the 88c using Highway 115 and Highway 401.
Dan416
Senior Member
That's strange. I was checking gotracker.ca here and there and it didn't mention any Milton line trains being cancelled. And the departure board once I got to Union around 5:30 showed 17:55 and it didn't have any notes that it was cancelled. It just said to go to platform 4 for the 17:55 train. Whereas Lakeshore line departures did mention cancellations and adjustments. All that matters was that there was a train at 17:55.
littlewill1166
Active Member
I'd try claiming the service guarantee, you're probably eligible.
Dan416
Senior Member
On the train they said it applied, which confused me, since the train was only late like 5 minutes from my perspective. Could be why they mentioned it.