GO Transit

[plam]

Is this actually a service reduction for the Bloor/Weston <-> Union trips? Yes, there's fewer UPX trains stopping there, but there's a bunch of new GO trains making those stops. If GO trains are every 30, and UPX is every 30, with appropriate timing there's still service every 15.

My only complaint is that when coming from KW I use Weston as my transfer point between the GO train and UPX. It'll be annoying if I have to overshoot all the way to Union. I've already been thinking GO should have the express trains stop at Weston just for the UPX connection.

Maybe it wasn't, but it was perceived as one? The increased Bramalea to Union service is also going to be a lot.

[coriander]

Is this actually a service reduction for the Bloor/Weston <-> Union trips? Yes, there's fewer UPX trains stopping there, but there's a bunch of new GO trains making those stops. If GO trains are every 30, and UPX is every 30, with appropriate timing there's still service every 15.

My only complaint is that when coming from KW I use Weston as my transfer point between the GO train and UPX. It'll be annoying if I have to overshoot all the way to Union. I've already been thinking GO should have the express trains stop at Weston just for the UPX connection.

Maybe it wasn't, but it was perceived as one? The increased Bramalea to Union service is also going to be a lot.

For a number of trip pairs, it was a substantial service reduction. For instance, a counter-flow traveller going from Weston to Union might have previously had 5 trains in an hour in the afternoon. With the halving of UPX service, they'd then have 3. The new schedules don't add any counter-peak trains, and since the trips aren't equally spaced, this means a good chance that the headway experienced by our hypothetical traveller is doubled. Even at favourable times, it's a reduction from 5 trains an hour to 4 poorly-spaced ones.

[Acitta]

You see what happens when you people demand more GO Transit service? Alstom tries to deny vacation time to employees. :-)

Exclusive: union head speaks out after GO workers denied vacation

[KevinL]

They have less than a year remaining on that contract, and are trying to milk whatever they can from the workers before it concludes.