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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

ssiguy2 said:
The demand for good transport connection from London is there.

After the fall of Greyhound, 2 bus companies have moved in to take it's place. Megabus was first and ridership has been high enough {remember that this was even during the pandemic} that a second started operation recently.......ONEX. Now there are 14 round trip buses from London to Toronto daily and Megabus has already stated they see further increases in their service.

It's small wonder this is happening. The demand is there, London is one of Canada's fastest growing cities, and MegaBus's fastest service gets from London to Union in 2 hours and 5 minutes. Try doing that on VIA. What's more the buses are reliable and arrive and leave when they are suppose to. These new buses are also not your Dad's Greyhound but comfortable, have all the amenities people expect, and don't suffer from Greyhound's poor reputation.

These services would not be offered if Londoners actually viewed VIA as an affordable, reliable, and fast way to get to Union but alas VIA seems intent on allowing SWO service to rot. Once Londoners really start using the service and people realize that this is not Greyhound, it will become much harder for VIA to get those passengers back, assuming they even want to.
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The problem is GO knows this and yet they still scheduled the GO trains as commuter service times. They just cannot get their head out of that hole of commuter service.

For the London GO train to be viable, besides the increase in speeds there needs to be midday, evening and weekend service.
 
robmausser said:
The problem is GO knows this and yet they still scheduled the GO trains as commuter service times. They just cannot get their head out of that hole of commuter service.

For the London GO train to be viable, besides the increase in speeds there needs to be midday, evening and weekend service.
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Case in point: they just restored 15-minute service on the UP Express, but only during weekday peak periods. As if travel to/from the airport had the same peak periods as office workers.
 
reaperexpress said:
Case in point: they just restored 15-minute service on the UP Express, but only during weekday peak periods. As if travel to/from the airport had the same peak periods as office workers.
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my understanding is that this is actually true - The peak isn't as intense, but generally the busiest flight times align with business hours to reflect business flyers.
 
Allandale25 said:
^ Plus I recall pre-covid people using it as a commuter line between Union and Bloor.
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Best way to beat the crowds after a Jays or Leafs game. You are on the train and at Dundas West long before either TTC or GO riders, without any of the Union platform crush….and with fare integration you can get back on TTC for the rest of the trip.
15-minute GO on this route will solve that.

- Paul
 
innsertnamehere said:
my understanding is that this is actually true - The peak isn't as intense, but generally the busiest flight times align with business hours to reflect business flyers.
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I imagine that business flyers are a smaller proportion of travel now.
 
robmausser said:
The problem is GO knows this and yet they still scheduled the GO trains as commuter service times. They just cannot get their head out of that hole of commuter service.

For the London GO train to be viable, besides the increase in speeds there needs to be midday, evening and weekend service.
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You know this entire "service" was designed by a Torontonian who has probably never been to London. They can't for the life of them fathom how people would actually go to London to work from it's suburbs or the service would reflect that. Everyone in London's suburbs commutes to Toronto, didn't you know that?

Seriously, would you start a service with just one return trip a day that takes 4 hours? Added to this of course is that this person probably thought that the TTC & LT were one in the same. If not, then nobody would offer a car-free transit line that leaves the city BEFORE the local transit system actually "starts running. In other words, take transit but only if you have a car to do it with.
 
ssiguy2 said:
You know this entire "service" was designed by a Torontonian who has probably never been to London. They can't for the life of them fathom how people would actually go to London to work from it's suburbs or the service would reflect that. Everyone in London's suburbs commutes to Toronto, didn't you know that?

Seriously, would you start a service with just one return trip a day that takes 4 hours? Added to this of course is that this person probably thought that the TTC & LT were one in the same. If not, then nobody would offer a car-free transit line that leaves the city BEFORE the local transit system actually "starts running. In other words, take transit but only if you have a car to do it with.
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Not again.
 
ssiguy2 said:
You know this entire "service" was designed by a Torontonian who has probably never been to London. They can't for the life of them fathom how people would actually go to London to work from it's suburbs or the service would reflect that. Everyone in London's suburbs commutes to Toronto, didn't you know that?

Seriously, would you start a service with just one return trip a day that takes 4 hours? Added to this of course is that this person probably thought that the TTC & LT were one in the same. If not, then nobody would offer a car-free transit line that leaves the city BEFORE the local transit system actually "starts running. In other words, take transit but only if you have a car to do it with.
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Please stop.
 
ssiguy2 said:
You know this entire "service" was designed by a Torontonian who has probably never been to London. They can't for the life of them fathom how people would actually go to London to work from it's suburbs or the service would reflect that. Everyone in London's suburbs commutes to Toronto, didn't you know that?

Seriously, would you start a service with just one return trip a day that takes 4 hours? Added to this of course is that this person probably thought that the TTC & LT were one in the same. If not, then nobody would offer a car-free transit line that leaves the city BEFORE the local transit system actually "starts running. In other words, take transit but only if you have a car to do it with.
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It's been explained 100 times that service wasn't made for the Toronto to London commuter.
 
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