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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

Hey everyone (not sure if this is the right place for this post, but here goes), wondering if someone can help me out here. I"m new to Toronto and my wife and I are looking at the condos and mimico primarily because of their apparent proximity to the Mimico Go Train. In reality the condos are a solid 20-30 minute walk away from the station. And there isn't any direct public transportation to the station (streetcar is only on lake short, bus only on royal york).

My question is, how do all those hundreds and thousands of people who live in these buildings get to the station? Is Parking at the station easy to come by? I just don't get! Any guidance from anyone who lives in the area would be much appreciated.
 
kareeme said:
Hey everyone (not sure if this is the right place for this post, but here goes), wondering if someone can help me out here. I"m new to Toronto and my wife and I are looking at the condos and mimico primarily because of their apparent proximity to the Mimico Go Train. In reality the condos are a solid 20-30 minute walk away from the station. And there isn't any direct public transportation to the station (streetcar is only on lake short, bus only on royal york).

My question is, how do all those hundreds and thousands of people who live in these buildings get to the station? Is Parking at the station easy to come by? I just don't get! Any guidance from anyone who lives in the area would be much appreciated.
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Why not find another area with closer access to a GO station? I doubt you'll enjoy walking 20-30 minutes in the cold.
 
kareeme said:
Hey everyone (not sure if this is the right place for this post, but here goes), wondering if someone can help me out here. I"m new to Toronto and my wife and I are looking at the condos and mimico primarily because of their apparent proximity to the Mimico Go Train. In reality the condos are a solid 20-30 minute walk away from the station. And there isn't any direct public transportation to the station (streetcar is only on lake short, bus only on royal york).

My question is, how do all those hundreds and thousands of people who live in these buildings get to the station? Is Parking at the station easy to come by? I just don't get! Any guidance from anyone who lives in the area would be much appreciated.
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There are 100s of thousands of people living in condos in Mimico? Really?
 
I read "hundreds and thousands", not "hundreds of thousands" - I figure there might be 10,000 people living in the condos west of the Humber River - including Palace Pier and the Motel Strip.
 
ShonTron said:
I don't like how the first train from Union northbound on the weekend Barrie service is at 12:40 - I would have liked to see an earlier departure, even by an hour. Pretty much the same schedule as last year. GO's weekend services should try to serve people from Toronto getting out to Barrie/Simcoe County (I've done this last summer) as much as people going into the city for the day/weekend.
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I would like to see Metrolinx try a Niagara/Cape Flyer type service up the CN Bala next year. How far could a GO set get in the Niagara timing of 2hr 4min? (or put another way, 1hr 16min north of Richmond Hill GO)
 
dowlingm said:
I would like to see Metrolinx try a Niagara/Cape Flyer type service up the CN Bala next year. How far could a GO set get in the Niagara timing of 2hr 4min? (or put another way, 1hr 16min north of Richmond Hill GO)
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Probably up to Brechin East ( Mile 72.2 ), or Washago if they are really lucky. The problem with the bala sub is that it is CNs primary north/south route though Ontario; It depends on how busy CN is on the given day, as most of the time with meets it will the go train going into the siding. Current schedule time for the Canadian is 2h 40m to Washago.
 
Jag202, as I understand it the Canadian currently goes up the Barrie line and reverses onto CN York to get to CN Bala because it is too long to wye elsewhere. That likely adds a bit. There are supposed to be some track adds as part of the GO extension to Gormley and layover.

liamdevlin02: Northlander ran on Friday morning and not at all on Saturday. So not what I had in mind.
 
ShonTron said:
I read "hundreds and thousands", not "hundreds of thousands" - I figure there might be 10,000 people living in the condos west of the Humber River - including Palace Pier and the Motel Strip.
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You're right not sure how I got that read wrong.....apologies to kareeme.
 
dowlingm said:
Jag202, as I understand it the Canadian currently goes up the Barrie line and reverses onto CN York to get to CN Bala because it is too long to wye elsewhere. That likely adds a bit. There are supposed to be some track adds as part of the GO extension to Gormley and layover.

liamdevlin02: Northlander ran on Friday morning and not at all on Saturday. So not what I had in mind.
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That's why I said kind of like it - if they had run it right, it would have been a service more like the one you linked to.
 
dowlingm said:
Jag202, as I understand it the Canadian currently goes up the Barrie line and reverses onto CN York to get to CN Bala because it is too long to wye elsewhere. That likely adds a bit. There are supposed to be some track adds as part of the GO extension to Gormley and layover .
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You are correct about the Canadian's route. Referring to the Bala sub, the second track and new signal system are up and running to the layover facility.
Go equipment used to be used to run a service to Casino Rama that went up the Bala to Washago, then reverse on the newmarket in 2h30m. Such service that you are suggesting could work, but I don't see CN being too happy about GO clogging up their mainline north of Quaker. When I've been in the RTC office before, the Bala dispatcher always seems to have his hands full.
 
The other problem with the Bala is that it's very lightly populated. Beaverton is the largest town on the line between Richmond Hill and either Parry Sound or Gravenhurst. The optimal route was the Newmarket Sub as it ran through Barrie and Orillia up to Washago where it met the Bala. CN didn't want to maintain the swing bridge at Atherley (near Orillia) and abandoned the track north of Allandale in the 1990s. This is the route the Northlander used to take -it stopped at Newmarket, Allandale and Orillia.
 
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