Recent content by christine

I'm guessing terminating the 68 at Allandale Waterfront didn't sit well with passengers.

After looking at the Train Schedule changes page it appears these changes started this weekend instead of the 11th. Considering how often Barrie/Stouffville trips were cancelled due to "crew availability" in the past several months I'm guessing their solution is to just remove trips out of the...

Looks like GO Transit is diverting the 21 Milton and 31 Georgetown buses to Port Credit again on Saturday:

The section of track the train was stranded at was around South Kingsway. The closest station platform would be Mimico, and the closest at-grade crossing would be in Mississauga. The tracks are on an embankment with the Gardiner right beside them making it a dangerous evacuation, especially at...

I've been following some of this mess ever since I had two consecutive train cancellations at West Harbour about a month ago (which happened again last night). I've found that if there are two events downtown on the same day (Jays game + Fan Expo or Indy or a concert) you'll be lucky if you can...

So they announced a service cut but made it sound like a positive thing. That's some good spin.

https://citizen.on.ca/mysterious-sale-of-the-obry/

I don't think even GO bus service to Orillia makes sense, let alone GO trains. Is there a commuter market that far north? Or would it target the cottage/tourism market which is something the ONTC bus service would be better suited for. Back to the BCRY corridor, as far as I'm aware GO Transit...

I've been hearing that since the late 1990s. It was supposed to be elevated, then they changed it to at-grade because it'd be half the cost, but then there was concerns about the hazards of at-grade. Either way I doubt anything will happen along that corridor.

They can't even do this with the GO train. Grand River Transit, Barrie, St Catharines don't use Presto. Just stick to paper and mobile tickets for any Ontario Northland services. No reason to complicate it and create unnecessary barriers

I suspect the note about a special/different schedule for Sunday would be to accommodate cottage country which could be a day or evening train. Langstaff is to offer connection to regional GO bus services (i.e. the buses that utilize the Highway 407 corridor). Gormely was added due to parking...

According to the updated business case, the Timmins station is to be at the current end of steel at Highway 101 near Gervais St. The announcement was made at Falcon St here. EDIT: From the business case (page 121):

A tender was put up for refurbing a number of GO coaches. Apparently Ontario Northland was the favourite but Montreal-based CAD got the contract because it was supposedly $2 million cheaper. After the divesture announcement on Mar 23 2012 many speculated that awarding the contract to CAD in the...

Good news for them. Many people said the 2011 contract to CAD was a warning shot for what happened in 2012.

Unfortunately that means nothing. In Ontario, once rail is gone it never comes back. VIA HFR doesn't count until I see new track on the ground. Plus I have strong suspicions that parts of the corridor will be sold off to private land owners since a fair bit of the corridor runs through private...