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(10-18-2025, 03:03 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: 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.
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(10-18-2025, 03:23 PM)Momo26 Wrote: Okay so it's BTN, but barely. 2 round trips only and if ridership isn't there, I could see them scrapping it.
The ridership absolutely is there - the current option (a connecting bus to Bramalea) is continually jam-packed, so all of those passengers will shift over along with all the folks who would never consider a bus. So I can't see this failing on that metric.
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They are planning a park and ride in Breslau so that will hopefully alleviate a lot of the traffic problems.
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(10-18-2025, 03:23 PM)Momo26 Wrote: We need lots where your GO ticket for that day validates the parking, within 10min walk to station and a family day pass that is competitively priced relative to gas+parking equivalent.
Why do you think GO riders should get free parking (If I’m understanding your proposal correctly)?
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If only we could clear out the slum next door to start building a new train station and make it safer for women and other vulnerable people to walk 10 minutes in the dark without having to worry...
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Is there any word about the Mount Dennis station, which would give us a connection to Union-Pearson Express?
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(10-19-2025, 08:47 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Is there any word about the Mount Dennis station, which would give us a connection to Union-Pearson Express?
It will presumably open at or close to the opening of Line 5, the Eglinton Crosstown. Predicting a date for THAT is a wholly different endeavour.
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Yes, parking should be free at the station. You need to incentivize people taking train. Changing habits.
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(10-19-2025, 08:47 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Is there any word about the Mount Dennis station, which would give us a connection to Union-Pearson Express?
Mount Denis would be a better connection but there is already a connection to the Kitchener line you just have to go a bit further into Toronto.
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At the new station, the Ion will actually be visible from the station, and not an extremely unpleasant walk away. A lot fewer people will cab from downtown because the walk along King, again, is almost incomparably better than that along Victoria. The infrastructure to support drop-offs by car will be much better, but the number of drop-offs will go way down.
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(10-19-2025, 08:57 PM)KevinL Wrote: (10-19-2025, 08:47 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Is there any word about the Mount Dennis station, which would give us a connection to Union-Pearson Express?
It will presumably open at or close to the opening of Line 5, the Eglinton Crosstown. Predicting a date for THAT is a wholly different endeavour.
The station itself looks like it is substantively complete, and has looked that way for months. It's just waiting for Eglinton Crosstown, as you say...next year?
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(10-20-2025, 07:02 AM)MidTowner Wrote: (10-19-2025, 08:57 PM)KevinL Wrote: It will presumably open at or close to the opening of Line 5, the Eglinton Crosstown. Predicting a date for THAT is a wholly different endeavour.
The station itself looks like it is substantively complete, and has looked that way for months. It's just waiting for Eglinton Crosstown, as you say...next year?
Yes Mount Dennis isn't expected to open until Eglinton does. There's no physical reason they couldn't open it earlier, it could be open by now. However the contract effectively stipulates that they can't.
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(10-19-2025, 11:07 PM)Momo26 Wrote: Yes, parking should be free at the station. You need to incentivize people taking train. Changing habits.
Is GO parking free anywhere else?
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(10-19-2025, 11:07 PM)Momo26 Wrote: Yes, parking should be free at the station. You need to incentivize people taking train. Changing habits.
Why not just reduce fares? What is so magical about parking that it needs to be free, even though nobody can even need parking if they don’t have at least enough wealth to have a car (which I know doesn’t exactly make someone wealthy, but they are presumably wealthier than somebody who can’t afford a car).
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(01-10-2025, 01:16 PM)Bytor Wrote: (01-09-2025, 01:35 PM)LesPio Wrote: Ford directs Metrolinx to study GO Transit expansion by diverting freight rails
How much you wanna bet that the optimum route to do a diversion of freight to enhance the GO passenger rail system will turn out to be the exact same diversion that the Wynne Liberals going to do that Doug Ford cancelled as soon as he was elected?
(10-20-2025, 12:11 PM)tomh009 Wrote: (10-19-2025, 11:07 PM)Momo26 Wrote: Yes, parking should be free at the station. You need to incentivize people taking train. Changing habits.
Is GO parking free anywhere else? Go has several parking structures at stations that are owned by Metrolinx. These tend to suburban commuter stations and not their downtown stations. They are all free. Some are excessively large such as Bloomington GO.
I would expect that Breslau GO will have a large free lot when/if it's ever built.
The change from commuter rail to a regional rail system should alleviate/reduce the need for parking. The original intention of GO was for 9-5 commuters, explicitly removing them from the car. With the ongoinging transition to regional rail, full time connectivity with connections to other modes at all hours of the day should reduce the emphasis on park-and-ride.
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