GO Transit making changes to meet increased demand
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Wabtec Signs Contract To Provide Electronic Braking To South Africa's Spoornet Beginning April 3, 2010, GO Transit is making several system-wide train and bus service changes to bring schedules in line with actual travel trip times and to meet the needs of our growing ridership across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
"More and more
customers are using our service, and as a result, we have to adjust our
schedules to accommodate them," said Gary McNeil, GO Transit’s Managing
Director. "As well, we have to balance our fiscal responsibility with our
need to provide more service in higher demand areas."
These service changes
represent a comprehensive adjustment of train and bus service schedules. A
number of factors have contributed to the need to update the GO system
including:
• the addition of new
services that accommodate recent changes in customer travel patterns and ease
congestion on busy routes, including the addition of a new
westbound Lakeshore East morning train from Oshawa;
• an expanded service
network, increased ridership and added train capacity with the
implementation of 12-car trains, which have had an impact on the published
schedule versus the actual travel times;
• a mandate to support a
fully-integrated regional transportation system across the GTHA by optimizing
services already being offered by our regional transit provider partners;
• a system-wide review
that identified opportunities where service resources across the region could
be used more efficiently and effectively to better meet the needs of commuters
across the region; and
• a responsibility to
provide continued high-level service in a fiscally responsible way.
GO Transit’s
strategically-adjusted train and bus schedules, across all seven corridors,
vary from minor changes to departure and arrival times, to significant service
changes and additions.
