GO Transit - Printable Version +- Waterloo Region Connected (https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com) +-- Forum: Waterloo Region Works (https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=14) +--- Forum: Transportation and Infrastructure (https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=25) +--- Thread: GO Transit (/showthread.php?tid=12) Pages:
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RE: GO Transit - dtkmelissa - 12-22-2018 (12-22-2018, 01:29 PM)tvot Wrote: Does anyone else remember or have a vague recollection of a report put out by Communitech or maybe local government on the impact of 2-way-all-day service? I think there were numbers like $300 million investment for a projected $6 billion impact, but I could be off. There was a business plan put out by the City of Kitchener, I believe in 2015. Is this (see attached) what you're referring to? RE: GO Transit - tvot - 12-24-2018 (12-22-2018, 02:29 PM)dtkmelissa Wrote: There was a business plan put out by the City of Kitchener, I believe in 2015. Is this (see attached) what you're referring to? I guess that must have been it... about the right length compared to my memory. Maybe it needs to be dusted off, edited into two versions and sent off to the Province and the Feds. The version for the province can stress pure economics and we can leave the environmental impacts in for the feds RE: GO Transit - Canard - 12-27-2018 Is the 30 (the hourly connection between Kitchener GO and Bramalea GO) only serviced by older, single-decker busses? RE: GO Transit - timio - 12-27-2018 ^ I've seen double deckers on the runs back to Toronto mid day as I've been on single deckers heading to kw. I also took a double decker at 748am to Bramalea. Depends on usage elsewhere in the system it seems. RE: GO Transit - Canard - 12-27-2018 Ah, thanks! Maybe I’ll try a Bus/Train combo on the way back; the trip in is a single-decker and I was really hoping to snatch an upstairs front seat on a double. (Although I imagine there’s a mad rush on the Bramalea>Kitchener bus for that seat since everyone arrives on the train at the same time.) RE: GO Transit - timio - 12-27-2018 The connection to the 2:53 and 3:35 train has always been single decker over the past year. Generally there's one or two people waiting for the bus by the time the train arrives, but you can get there ahead of most people by sitting in the east end of the train; front door of the first coach or back door of the second coach will get you right at the eastern tunnel and line you up to hoof it to the far east platform to catch the bus in hopes you're ahead of anyone else getting off the train. RE: GO Transit - Canard - 12-27-2018 Thanks for the feedback! I took the 5:50pm train back. 2h17 to go 100 km, so an average of about 43 km/h. It was pretty agonizing how slowly it crawled along the way. We must do better. RE: GO Transit - tomh009 - 12-27-2018 It's a Train for the People. RE: GO Transit - Spokes - 01-08-2019 Increase in GO Train service started Monday Quote:A 25 per cent increase comes in the form of two more trains per day, one in the morning and one at night. RE: GO Transit - danbrotherston - 01-08-2019 (01-08-2019, 10:21 AM)Spokes Wrote: Increase in GO Train service started Monday I'm guessing that MPP Harris wouldn't be allowed to say if he was hearing complaints, even if he wanted too...of course, given he was gifted a riding, he probably doesn't even care. RE: GO Transit - Spokes - 01-08-2019 This seems like a constant political back and forth issue. RE: GO Transit - timio - 01-08-2019 Curious who made the call to remove the pm express: PC government? Unlikely (although they have the most part to play in bringing it back, and get an underserved photo op as well if they do) Metrolinx: unlikely GO: potentially CN: likely Not that I give the government any credit for this (or anything, really), but I highly doubt they intentionally cut the express trip. More likely a scheduling thing. Only a specific block of time available at Union which didn't correlate with a block of time to go through CN territory with express. But yes, this does suck for those who work until 1630. I'm fine with the 1535 train, but not everyone has the flexibility to do so. RE: GO Transit - urbd - 01-08-2019 (12-27-2018, 11:30 AM)Canard Wrote: Ah, thanks! It's not a great experience. The extra height and high speeds they travel at make it very unpleasant, the bus swerves a lot and feels unsafe. RE: GO Transit - danbrotherston - 01-08-2019 Depends on the person, I prefer the view, and the swaying doesn't bother me. RE: GO Transit - timio - 01-08-2019 I had one driver that rode the brakes the entire trip on a single level. By the time we reached Charles street, I was quite happy to be ashore again. |