TOareaFan
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Actually, I hope this isn't the case. The midday train schedule was pretty crummy, especially for the forced transfer from points west of Bramalea. With the extra platform capacity at Brampton and Mount Pleasant, and the double-tracking of the Credit River bridge, I would hope that GO would actually use it! I want the only trains coming and going from Bramalea to be the rush hour locals.
The plans said 29 revenue GO train movements in 2015 - that's 14 trains in and out (and presumably at least one deadhead to or from Willowbrook). The current trains on the corridor are some of the most overcrowded in the system, and Georgetown/Kitchener is the only line without capacity improvements in years now.
Here's how I'd like to see those 29 trains allocated:
Early AM 10-car train from Georgetown
Four express 12-car trains from Kitchener, express from Bramalea.
Four local 10 or 12-car trains from Bramalea
New 10-car train from Georgetown to arrive at Union around 9:15
New train to depart Mount Pleasant (using returning trainset) to arrive at Union around 10AM.
New train to depart Mount Pleasant (using returning trainset) to arrive at Union around 11AM.
New train to depart Mount Pleasant (using returning trainset) to arrive at Union around 12PM.
So, using my stop as an example (the downtown Brampton station....a pretty urban station, linking with lots of bus lines, and a designated "place to grow") and including that 9:18 Union arrival as a "get to work train"......that schedule provides 1 additional train compared to currently service levels plus 3 off peak trains. Yes 4 of those trains now run express to Union (compared to 1 now) after Bramalea but I don't often hear people complain about the length of time it gets to Union...more that there are not enough trains. Not sure 1 additional train is going to get people doing cartwheels down the platform.
It still baffles me that people do not seem to support immediate introduction of Lakeshore level service on this line.