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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

YCMYHM said:
Word on the street is that the single track portion of the CN Grimsby Subdivision (CN Nelles in Grimsby to CN Jordan in Jordan) is to be double tracked this spring.
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Nice first message! You sound like you know what you are talking about. You are a railfan, or you work in the industry?
 
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This was Kitchener GO the other day with the 2:47 PM arrival. Looks like lots more people are taking the train to Kitchener or vice versa. I've been taking that train at Bramalea to Union and its decently full. between 1/2 to 3/4 seats in each four seat arrangement occupied.

The 7:57-9:51 train is now standing room only after Bramalea. I'm really hoping they upgrade to a 10 car.

The very late night trains aren't that well used but i think it's because the busses are still running at the same time. I saw about 40 people get off the 7:53 PM train at Bramalea and malton. (about 80 in total and probably about 600 people were on the train) Then, saw another 30 people get off the bus that arrived about 5 minutes later from Union.
 
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YCMYHM said:
Word on the street is that the single track portion of the CN Grimsby Subdivision (CN Nelles in Grimsby to CN Jordan in Jordan) is to be double tracked this spring.

The bridge across Jordan Harbour has already received structural reinforcements and has been double tracked.

This work should hopefully eliminate freight delays that affect Niagara GO trains.

Additionally, new switches are being installed in Niagara Falls and the second track from CN Clifton to the Niagara Falls station is being repaired.
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Here is to hoping they can upgrade the facilities in the near term at Niagara. Not knocking the station entirely but having sat there waiting for a GO Train last summer was not fun. The area is barren and the facility is not conducive to long term waiting. It was much more pleasant sitting on the GO train than it was sitting inside the station.
 
mdrejhon said:
Nice first message! You sound like you know what you are talking about. You are a railfan, or you work in the industry?
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YCMYHM said:
Word on the street is that the single track portion of the CN Grimsby Subdivision (CN Nelles in Grimsby to CN Jordan in Jordan) is to be double tracked this spring.

The bridge across Jordan Harbour has received structural reinforcements to clear the slow order.

This work should hopefully eliminate freight delays that affect Niagara GO trains.

Additionally, new switches are being installed in Niagara Falls and the second track from CN Clifton to the Niagara Falls station is being repaired.
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Yes, welcome!
 
Meanwhile, I've made a new post that might be of interest to those paying attention to Hamilton:
Hamilton 2041 Transit Vision (Including GO)

This is a combined Hamilton regional transportation plan segment of Metrolinx 2041 re-interpreted under the current lens of the GO Expansion Business Case -- with some ideas thrown in (Gage GO station, Dundurn GO station, B-Line extension to Confederation GO, A-Line BRT+LRT hybrid, and all-day service to both West Harbour and Hamilton Downtown).
 
YCMYHM said:
Word on the street is that the single track portion of the CN Grimsby Subdivision (CN Nelles in Grimsby to CN Jordan in Jordan) is to be double tracked this spring.
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That rumour has been around for a long, long time. Maybe as long as the stretch has been single-tracked.

Alas, there is no plan nor funding for that work to be done in the foreseeable future.

Dan
 
A lot of the weekday buses are now wiped from the new Route 31 schedule, including the express buses from Union Station via Highway 410 to Shoppers World/Brampton/Georgetown. There are still hourly buses filling the gaps between the weekday evening hourly train service (there were four buses an hour from Union, two to Malton and Bramalea, two to Brampton and beyond), but they're all milk runs via Malton and Bramalea GO - this increases the time it takes for many passengers (Malton should be cut as a bus stop for some of these runs, IMHO).

The weekend bus schedule is unaffected.

Route 12 (Burlington-Niagara) is also moving the Hamilton East stop (Barton & Nash) to the future Confederation GO Station site. It reduces the trip length slightly, but it also misses a direct bus connection to Downtown Hamilton (Route 2 Barton), with less frequent Route 44 service instead.

Bus Schedule Changes | Service Updates | GO Transit

Click here to see upcoming GO Bus schedule changes and stay in the know!
www.gotransit.com www.gotransit.com
 
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