GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

[urbancog]

The new Halton Region Integrated Master Plan has projected 2051 populations for Milton and Halton Hills of 455k and 169k. With this projection, Milton's population will be slightly higher than Oakville's. The Milton & Halton Hills built-out urban area are shown in a beige colour in this map:

The proposed new GO station at Trafalgar Rd / CPKC tracks is still in the plan and this really highlights the need for GO Train service enhancements on the Milton GO line.

 

[T3G]

The proposed new GO station at Trafalgar Rd / CPKC tracks is still in the plan and this really highlights the need for GO Train service enhancements on the Milton GO line.

What, doing a service for the public benefit? Are you crazy? Far more important to protect CPKC's corporate profits at all costs, instead...

/s

 

[urbanclient]

What, doing a service for the public benefit? Are you crazy? Far more important to protect CPKC's corporate profits at all costs, instead...

/s

What's that? Railways are a natural monopoly? Someone please think of the poor shareholders.

 

[Undead]

I support more passenger service, of course. But remember that freight rail is much more important to the economy than passenger rail in this country. This is not to excuse poor passenger service, but the "CN bad" narrative is a boring cliche at this point.

 

[T3G]

Is it a cliche if CPKC refuses to allow GO run to more service so that they can run a paltry 8 freight trains a day? With a bit of creativity, they'd both be able to co-exist, as in Europe. As someone who has to rely on this corridor on a daily basis, I'm getting really tired of apologies being made for this appalling level of service. Time to figure it out.

 

[urbanclient]

But remember that freight rail is much more important to the economy than passenger rail in this country.

That justification is what CN and CPKC use to curtail passenger rail expansion as they rest on their laurels. CN spent more on dividends and stock buybacks than they did on capital investments recently.

"We're more important than passenger rail, therefore we should stay more important."

Freight being a much larger part of GDP is a self-reinforcing cycle. The relative gap can be closed if dedicated passenger lines were built i.e. Alto. Not saying passenger rail will actually beat freight for a sparsely populated country like Canada.

Australia is the best counterexample: a large and sparse country with 3,000+ km of electrified passenger rail. And yet Australia has a higher car ownership rate, while relying more on freight rail than trucks (compared to Canada).

 

[Jonny5]

Just a pic of the richmond hill train in the foggy evening just north of Oriole

Has an eerie post-apocalyptic feel to it, like that's where the train stopped forever when the first nuke went off over Toronto. Only need the building on the right to look a bit run down.

 

[Voltz]

looks like there is a freight train derailment near St Catharines, GO trains can’t go there until it’s cleared out. Pictures I’ve seen show quite the amount of damage.

 

[DatTranzitGuy]

looks like there is a freight train derailment near St Catharines, GO trains can’t go there until it’s cleared out. Pictures I’ve seen show quite the amount of damage.

Hopefully CN gets the area cleared and fixed quickly, faster than Metrolinx could

 

[Northern Light]

looks like there is a freight train derailment near St Catharines, GO trains can’t go there until it’s cleared out. Pictures I’ve seen show quite the amount of damage.

Story here:

Train derailment in St. Catharines leaves Welland Canal rail bridge inoperable

Canadian National Railway officials said a non-hazardous product used to make household plastics spilled from one of the rail cars.

www.niagarathisweek.com

From the above:

From Reddit

Source: reddit]trains/comments/1s7t3ng/cn_train_derailment_in_st_catharines_on_canada

 

[Voltz]

Hopefully CN gets the area cleared and fixed quickly, faster than Metrolinx could

They’ve worked miracles before,