GO Transit

[dtkvictim]

Oh...is this traffic leaving the Via station?

I'll be honest, I've never driven to the station before, I've only arrived on foot, which is a garbage situation (although probably better than it was, last time I did it I had to climb over a metal guard rail and slide down a hill to get to Weber St.

As for parking...yeah, they don't do a good job of letting anyone know about the GO parking lot on Victoria St. I don't even know where it exists, and there was almost no documentation of it before so I don't even know where I'd check. And yes, any sane traffic planner would close Victoria and Water (and Victoria and Ahrens), unfortunately we don't have those in North America.

Part of the problem is that they planned to close this station years ago. I mean, I don't really believe they'd do much better with the new station...it is the same planning process that brought you this mess, but at the end of the day, they really just don't want to spend money on a dead station. Of course that would have made sense if the new station had actually been built.

Ugh...I'm gonna rent a fucking car this winter...I'm so sick of this bullshit.

The traffic is family/friends/ubers picking up and dropping off passengers for the train. These are the people filling up businesses' parking spaces while waiting, not people parking and then taking the train.

Some of that traffic is just inherent I think, while some is due to poor last mile connections. I also know multiple women who Uber between the station and downtown because they've been followed, harassed, or shouted at too many times by some particular people. My spouse will do that if it's after dark and/or I'm not able to meet her. Of course, I also know women who have been harassed by their Uber drivers lately... It's a pathetic world out there sometimes.

But anyways, I hope the new station will focus on both minimizing the need for car trips and focus on properly managing the car trips that do exist.