08-09-2015, 01:07 PM
(08-08-2015, 09:38 AM)Canard Wrote: I really wish we could have at least one weekend in/out train to Toronto. Like leave Saturday morning at 9am, comeback at 7pm. I'm sure there are a ton of families and people who would love to use that, instead of fighting on 401 and the Gardener and so on to get to Downtown Toronto.
I would excited to have weekend service too, but I am willing to have some more patience.
The roll out of GO service to this region seems to be tracking a similar course to other rollouts and extensions, but on an already extremely accelerated pace.
For example, the Lakeshore east line started with trains to Pickering then you had to bus to Oshawa before trains were extended to Ajax, then Whitby, then Oshawa, etc. This was accompanied with service first at rush hour only, then hourly, then weekend, and now more frequent service, but it took a long time relative to what Kitchener is seeing. Oshawa first got GO train service in 1990, hourly all-day service in 2000, and didn't get weekend service until 2007 I think; almost 2 decades.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.