r/gotransit

curious (with the delays climbing up to 33 mins this morning) as to why they don’t just turn the 8:01 arrival train on track 1 into the express and leave at a reasonable time. instead now the 8:25 train is leaving before the delayed 7:54.

track delays are understandable, but if it’s this consistent then why not just swap the trains? or is there something i’m maybe not considering??

Measuring with Google, it says that Niagara is 131 km from Union Station along the tracks, and Stratford is 148 km. Is there any sort of resource publicly available with the measurements either for entire train routes, or for the distances between stations, from which I can manually add them up?

I've tried searching Google, but it just points me to things like fare zones.

Thanks!

How busy is this GO station on a Saturday? Hoping to catch the train from there this weekend (around noon) and wondering my chances on parking availability.

Asking out of curiosity. Does GO change their schedules at predetermined times of the year? It seems like GO has been updating their schedules a few times a year. Iirc, some may have mentioned that they change their schedules according to the season. But I'm not sure. Anyone happen to know?

Same goes for routes. Have anyone happened to notice bus routes going through different streets at certain times of the year?

As title states, route 41 is already insane in both length / end-to-end runtime and frequency, and the route passes Aldershot GO without stopping, in the meanwhile route 18 provides service from Aldershot GO to Hamilton GO Center without stopping at McMaster U.

I understand that route 18 exist as a last-mile delivery of LW Hamilton GO Center branch, but since trains are stopping at West Harbour with an hourly basis, I believe the amount of passenger who take 18 to train does not need one dedicated bus and instead can be fit into route 41, Also route 41 is passing McMaster so it provides one more source of passenger to optimize the usage of this route.

Route 41 is already lengthy enough so it's in a state which adding one more stop won't create significant difference in travel time, and i believe there are very few passengers take the route from end to end. Also, by making some rush hour route 47 stop at Aldershot it could also relief the pressure from route 15.

With 41 and 47 stop at Aldershot, route 18 could be eliminated and all its trips will start/end at Union which serves only when the entire LW is not running. Just like how today's route 31 and 33 serving Kitchener Line works where 31 have only a few early morning / late night departure and 33 covers the area not served by train mid-day but go beyond and terminate at York Mills.

firstly, i was waiting for the 47W, it said it was departing 10 minutes late but turns out it was at the wrong gate?spot? and took off as soon as the indicator at back of the bus said it was the 47W. that kinda pissed me off but it’s okay. i waited for the 18:10 47 to hamilton go station from highway 407 station. i’m still on it but the driver took a whole new route to get to bramalea station (taking highway 407 towards the airport). i’m not sure if the drivers take a whole new route when there’s traffic but i truly thought i was on the wrong bus.

Question for people who understand GO Transit operations better than I do.

With the current closure of the Kitchener line for construction work related to the new Woodbine GO Station and the St. Clair–Old Weston area, I’m trying to understand why the service disruption had to be the entire corridor rather than a segmented operation.

From a passenger perspective, it seems like a more logical approach would have been:

• operate trains between Kitchener / Waterloo / Guelph and Malton
• use Malton as a temporary rail-bus transfer point
• run dedicated GO bus shuttles between Malton and Union Station

Instead, the current setup effectively pushes downtown-origin passengers into a much longer detour via Highway 407 Terminal, which adds a significant amount of time and transfers, especially for people starting at Union.

What makes this harder to understand is that the Woodbine GO station project has been discussed for years and is still not complete, yet its construction is now triggering full-corridor service changes.

From a network design standpoint, keeping a “live” western rail segment (west of the construction zone) seems like it would preserve:

• corridor capacity where it’s still usable
• more predictable travel times for western riders
• fewer forced mode changes
• better use of existing rail infrastructure rather than replacing everything with buses

The Malton area already functions as a major operational node on the corridor, so it feels like a natural place to split operations temporarily if needed.

I understand there are likely constraints on:

• track access and staging for construction
• turning trains safely at intermediate points
• crew scheduling and equipment positioning
• bus terminal capacity constraints at Union

But from a rider experience standpoint, the current replacement pattern feels like it prioritizes operational simplicity over maintaining the structure of the rail corridor as much as possible.

Genuinely curious if there’s a technical or safety reason this kind of “partial rail + bus bridge” approach isn’t feasible here, or if it’s just a tradeoff decision on GO’s side.

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I’ll need to commute regularly from Union Station to Aurora GO in the mornings, ideally arriving around 9 AM. From what I can see, though, there doesn’t seem to be a GO train or bus option that gets there around that time.

Right now it looks like my options are either:

• taking the earlier 65 GO bus and arriving between 7–8 AM (about a 1-hour trip), or
• taking Line 1 to Finch and then the Blue Bus, which ends up being closer to 2 hours total.

For those of you who make this commute, what route do you usually take?

I also read about the planned Barrie Line extension, does anyone know if that might lead to additional departure times or improved morning service in the future?

Apparently next weekend Lakeshore West is a no-go. Is Mount Pleasant direct to Union a do-able option? It looks like it's every hour to and from. Does anyone foresee this being a mess getting to Union for the Jays game due to the other closures? I've never taken any other line but Lakeshore so this will be a first.

Currently on board the 8:07 train and we got into an accident it seems. anyone else on board?