Wednesday, February 2, 2011

And no express trains home, either!

Balls!
Revised Evening Schedule from GO Transit
Trains leaving Union this afternoon heading east to Oshawa are highlighted in yellow.
Follow along ... no express.

By why? I don't mind the hour-plus train ride but why all the trains? What value does this bring? Why is today different from any other day where it snows?

7 comments:

  1. TomWFebruary 2, 2011 at 1:56 PM

    I *think* the idea is that running the normal mix of express and non-express trains requires a lot of switch movements. As switches are the thing most liekly to fail with snow/ice, the less they have to do, the better.

    Mind you, all the switch heaters seemed to working this morning, so I'm not quite sure why GO need to worry. Probably too scared of "GO IN SNOW IS NO-GO" type headlines.

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  2. TaylorFebruary 2, 2011 at 2:04 PM

    So where is the 17:20? Is that now the 17:30? For those of us that need to get on the train before union station, a little clairity would be appreciated.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2011 at 2:29 PM

    looks like the 5:20 has been moved

    re: switches,.... why not just tell us that then???

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2011 at 3:28 PM

    Why would you have a 16:25 and a 16:30 both making allstops ?

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  5. C.J. SmithFebruary 2, 2011 at 4:07 PM

    No kidding.
    Who's the donkey at GO who put this together. Trains running 5 mins apart? Hey, how about doing that EVERYDAY???

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  6. TomWFebruary 3, 2011 at 2:46 PM

    It looks liek someone took teh normal timetabel and made all teh express trains make all stops - hence the 16:25 (normally express) and 16:30 (normally makes all stops).
    No idea what happened to teh 17:20 - it seems to have been meregd with the 17:35 all stops to Pickering. (All stops run slower, so you can't have as many with the number of trains available).

    I'd love trains every 5 mins during rush hour. Hell, every 10-15 would be good. However, you'd never be able to get them all in and out of Union.

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  7. Dan1February 3, 2011 at 10:48 PM

    The problem with running all the trains locally and not express is it increases the travel times of those at the far ends of the network. Where a Hamilton train might usually go express at Clarkson, if it ran local it would make the Hamilton-Toronto commuters have a longer trip.

    This is a problem GO is going to face when they get the Guelph trains running. At some point they'll have to go express along the line to decrease travel times.

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