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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

innsertnamehere said:
Bajillion in Halton? There will literally be 3 level crossings left in Halton Region on LSW in a few years - Fourth Line, Kerr Street, and Chartwell Road. And Kerr Street is probably going to be "undeferred" sooner rather than later and get built.

Morningside Road is happening as well, with the contract having been issued recently from what I remember.

I do agree Metrolinx should focus on separations more, but ultimately they are very expensive. I would love for Metrolinx to focus on "cheaper" crossing removals - i.e. closures or replacing a level crossing with a pedestrian crossing only for many of the lower traffic crossings. There are 7 level crossings on LSW through Mississauga for example - you could probably just close 3 or 4 of them tomorrow with no major impact.

There are a lot of grade seperations moving in the background as well. Off the top of my head, the following are happening in the next few years:

LSW:
1. Burloak
2. Kerr (technically deferred, but funding will probably be identified somewhere some time soon as it's quite advanced)

Kitchener
1. Mississauga Rd (Peel will likely widen this soon and separate it)

Barrie
1. Davenport Diamond including Wallace Ave (recently opened)
2. Langstaff Rd - York Region is widening this in a few years and will grade separate it
3. Rutherford Rd - recently completed
4. McNaughton Rd
5. Wellington St Aurora

Stouffville:
1. Scarborough Junction Seperation including Danforth Rd
2. Progress Ave
3. Huntingwood Dr
4. Finch Ave (part of SmartTrack)
5. McNicoll Ave
6. Passmore Ave
7. Kennedy Rd
8. Denison St

LSE:
1. Scarborough Golf Club Rd
2. Morningside Avenue
3. Galloway Rd
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Do you have a source for these? not that I don't belive you, I just want to see for myself.
 
anb said:
Weekend service will just be hourly all day at all times and just to Mt Pleasant and back, while weekday service has more trains running back and forth. More specifically during peak times and going to further points on top. The Bramalea only trips are for 2 reasons, one because they can pull off non stop express trains from Bramalea to Union for the trains that are coming from Georgetown/Kitchener, and have another train do stops in between. The other reason is we simply have way more capacity currently in general from Union-Bramalea to run more trains as it is obv the priority corridor for the RER type of service on the line.
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Thank you for this. We really need Silver Junction to be done.
 
mossynukes said:
Do you have a source for these? not that I don't belive you, I just want to see for myself.
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I went looking for past studies on grade separations - my dusty memory recalls staff reportson the topic, but can’t seem to find them. A municipal report observed that (as of a few years back) there were 180 level crossings on the GO system. Pretty obvious why Go can’r afford to separate every last one.
The grade separations that are happening do get written up, particularly in reports to municipal councils. The minutes of city councils is a good place to track these down.

- Paul
 
crs1026 said:
I went looking for past studies on grade separations - my dusty memory recalls staff reportson the topic, but can’t seem to find them. A municipal report observed that (as of a few years back) there were 180 level crossings on the GO system. Pretty obvious why Go can’r afford to separate every last one.
The grade separations that are happening do get written up, particularly in reports to municipal councils. The minutes of city councils is a good place to track these down.

- Paul
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Paul, I believe I may have found your 'master list' of grade separations.........well, its name and the date on which Mx's Board was given it..........but the minutes don't go that far back.

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Perhaps someone else will find be able to track it down.
 
Northern Light said:
Paul, I believe I may have found your 'master list' of grade separations.........well, its name and the date on which Mx's Board was given it..........but the minutes don't go that far back.

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Perhaps someone else will find be able to track it down.
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Thank you. I suspect this is what I was remembering.

ML has purged its web site recently, and numerous documents that were previously available have disappeared. The old minutes and agendas of Board meetings are one such deletion.

Some of us spend a lot of time downloading and saving ML documentation, largely because it will eventually disappear and the history will be rewritten. One really can't express much trust with this organization.

- Paul
 
Just a random note, but its so relieving to see weekend trains to Mount Pleasant now. The 31 buses were a mess, and they really couldn't handle the capacity of riders that were heading DT or back into Brampton mainly. It was such a struggle, even on just the buses that serve Malton and Bramalea you could witness overflowing loads of passengers. Thankfully that ends after today, and wishing it won't be this way again.

The trains will not only allow people to at least get a seat if they are running 10+ cars, but also approximate their destination better as not everyone has the intent of heading to or near Union. If there was a line that desperately needed weekend train service, its for sure this line. We know it'll get ridership out of the gate, which is why I'm hoping that we can get trips to at least Guelph in the near future if they can't do Kitchener just yet. Kind of like the Allandale runs on the Barrie line which would be just fine for now and better than nothing.
 
Northern Light said:
I have not seen the section by section plans (which might change anyway); I know many favour an MCC diversion of GO; I'm not specifically aware of what @drum118 had to say on this recently. But, to my knowledge, that was not what was being looked at, at this time.
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I'm pretty sure a MCC diversion would require large amounts of expropriation and other unheard of capital expenses. Personally I don't think it makes too much sense
 
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