Train ride to Toronto nothing to smile about, says Lady in Pink
I am getting tired and fed up sitting on the stairs or being squashed like a sardine on the Barrie line. I get on at Rutherford and the trains are all so over crowded that there is barely space to breathe...not to mention that now all the trains on our line seem to be the old ones with the orange accents. The old trains seem smaller inside.
GO needs to add another morning and afternoon train to this line... or another car or something... this is getting out of hand.
It used to be that I only had to sit on the stairs or stand once in a while and only in the morning... now it's going home and coming in, no matter which of the trains I take!
I'm surprised, considering the growth in Vaughan, how GO has been slow to expand the schedule for that corridor. Is it crowded all the way to Barrie? Or just to Vaughan? On the LSE, it's a similar situation to Ajax.
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I ride the Barrie-Union line but thankfully get on in Newmarket. It seems to fill up by Maple, and by the time it hits Rutherford there a lot of people left standing. The amount of people that get on at Newmarket is dwarfed by the crowds I see at stops further along the way (like Rutherford). I used to take it North back from York in the evening but my schedule thankfully saves me from that this year. I can sympathize with how annoying it must be for people along at way. Being on a really crowded transit vehicle is uncomfortable as it is and when you add peoples inconsiderate actions to the mix it gets a lot more uncomfortable/unpleasant pretty quickly.
I just hovered over the photo and saw what you called it. LOL!!!
For details on which trains are corwded and where, see
http://www.gotransit.com/PassengerCharter/en/comfort/seating/lakeshoreE.aspx . It also shows the number of carriages.
It's odd that the most popular train on the Lakeshore East line (7:53 form Oshawa) has only 10 carriages. More 12-car trains please!
(NB: Barrie line platforms aren't long enough for 12-car trains).
I don't know about the rest of the line, but it's always standing room only between Union and Rutherford. Another train would be nice GO, take a hint.
Yeah I was just going to say, I know a couple of years ago some of the stops along that line had to extend the platforms to accomodate the 10 cars.
I get on in Newmarket and I think it's "okay" until you get to Maple/Rutherford, but like the first person said, compared to the ridership and how many people get on there versus in Newmarket, there are a shit ton more that get on on those stops and further south.
I've been bitching about this for years. 4 Trains down in the morning, 4 back at night. Come on now.
Thank god I don't have to stand, I think I'd be a heaving mess with the swaying back and forth.
LOL @ the pic name :)
Lindsay
It doesn't help that there's no parking left at the Newmarket GO Station by the time the 7:50 arrives. That forces people here to all cram onto the 7:20 or pay $9.00 for mall parking. So the third train is pretty crowded.
Recently I spotted a sign about overflow parking, but it's not clear that it's for Go Transit customers, or free.
ROFLOL CJ...love the pics name! I am on the train hoe now 5:17 to barrie and omg is packed this is insane
Makes you think...I pay $180 s a month to sit on the floor...there is something seriously wrong with that!!!any idea where I can contact go about this?
There are no overhead signal lights on (most of) the Barrie line, so the trains have to run a certain distance apart timewise - 30-ish minutes, I think - to avoid potential unpleasantness. Pretty sure that's the reason it's capped at 4 trains at the moment.
Holy! The photo reminds me of one of our trips to Montreal when Via had Bar Cars! Yeeeee Haaaaa!
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