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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    If they doubled the number of added trips (+2 round trips instead of +1) they would be back to pre-Covid service. Currently there are 8 round trips (increasing to 9 in April), and pre-pandemic there were 10. You can refer to my GO Timetable Archive for pre-pandemic service.
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    Intercity Bus Services

    ONTC is not direct, it's via North Bay. Last I rode there were 5 direct bus lines from downtown Toronto to Ottawa, plus Via and the airlines: - Book a Ride - Rider Express - Flixbus - Megabus - Red Arrow - Via - Porter Airlines - Air Canada I rode and filmed all of those for my upcoming video...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    It wouldn't be the first time that Metrolinx left track commissioning to the last minute. The double-track segment between Downsview Park and Rutherford stations was commissioned on the 17th of December 2017 and was required to run the new 60-minute two-way service that started on the 30th of...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    I don't know those dates but I will give you two pieces of information: 1. Metrolinx won't even tell us what service will run a month from now. They are upset that someone leaked the description of the April 2024 service changes. From the Toronto Star article: 2. The letter on the previous...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    This is mostly things we already knew, but I don't think we've seen that 26.2 km figure for the Halton Sub before. The segment of the Halton Sub to be upgraded is only about 20 km long so that's an average of 1.3 additional tracks. So for example they might add 1 additional track for 2/3 of the...
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    The Eurostar from Paris to Amsterdam runs at 300 km/h. There is not a single segment of 200 line on the route. It's all 300 km/h high speed lines or ≤160 km/h conventional lines. That's a pretty fundamental lack of understanding on his part. Especially if he's the one who brought up that...
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    Toronto Park Lawn GO Station | 12.83m | 2s | First Capital | Hatch

    @Bojaxs you posted this already on the 11th of February. And these were the responses: It has been made abundantly clear to you that the local trains stopping at Park Lawn will not be the same trains that carry people into Toronto from other cities, and that there are four tracks, so the...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    As I suspected, the upcoming 15% increase in train service is not the largest service increase since 2013. On the 7th of August 2021, GO Transit increased train service by 52%, adding 740 weekly trips - more than double the 308 trips they plan to add in the upcoming April 2024 schedule. Some...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    This is very positive news. But that claim of this being the largest service expansion since 2013 seems suspicious. They note that it's a 15% increase, but between August 2021 and September 2021 there was an enormous increase that was almost certainly more than that. I didn't specifically...
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    GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other

    We've been hearing recently about a new strategy of splitting 10/12 car weekday trains into 6 car weekend trains by embedding an old-style cab car in the consist. And now we've just heard that Lakeshore is about to get a big increase in weekend service. So I think that this could indeed be the...
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    Intercity Bus Services

    How on earth is their 2020 ridership higher than 2019? Even if they doubled their service I'd expect a substantial drop due to the lockdowns. For future expansion, I still think that Routes 1 (Penetanguishene - Barrie) and 3 (Orillia - Barrie) should be extended to Allandale station. They could...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Given that the transfer will be quicker at Ex than at Union, it's safe to assume that all demand from Lakeshore West to Osgoode and Queen stations will be relocated onto the Ontario line. That's already a substantial chunk of the transfers right there. Then there's a also a non-negligible...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    And people heading to somewhere along Dufferin, Bathurst or Harbourfront can already transfer to the streetcar or bus.
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Because the dwell time at Union determines the capacity of Southern Ontario's railway network.
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    That would be nice, but T1 is the platform it would make most sense to leave low-level, since it's the northernmost platform and GO diverges toward the north.
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    I don't think that looks tall enough for a 48" platform. It is incredibly fruatrating that they are rebuilding the platforms at the same height rather than raising them to match their trains, given that the tracks adjacent to the platforms are sidings that are never used by freight trains.
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    Not sure what you're looking at but in the photo you can clearly see that both Richmond Hill Line tracks have been shifted north to make room for the Ontario Line tunnel portal are still in place.
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    The service pattern is more robust than you're suggesting because it leaves the centre track completely vacant apart from the 6 Via trains per day in each direction. If an express does get stuck behind a late local train, worst case scenario is that it needs to run slowly for a few minutes until...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    That makes sense, but then it raises the question of what maintenance they're doing that requires shutting down the entire line from Aldershot to Toronto. For example maybe they could continue the Niagara Falls train to Oakville, and run an extra non-stop bus from there to Union in addition to...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Especially since that's the slow part of the route. Buses are significantly faster there, it's the Toronto-Burlington segment where the train is faster than a bus

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