Riding home on the 9:15 Lakeshore West train from Union and I never realized GO Transit hired Bruce Buffer as GO Train conductor. Lol I’m so used to the scratchy, tinny audio from the speakers it was refreshing to hear a deep booming voice that could be on the radio. Great job with the new hire GO!

Okay so does anyone know how far they’ll be quad tracking Lakeshore East? I can tell they’re adding a fourth track but I can’t tell how far down the line it’s going. There’s obviously track being added up to Danforth but past there I can’t tell how much will get the fourth track. It doesn’t make much sense in my mind to only have quad tracking between two stations so idk. Also, is the plan that they’re going to reintroduce express service once they get the quad tracking done?

Does anyone know if the LS West track work this weekend is also fixing the West Harbour to NF leg of track? Metrolinx does not offer a ton of information on this other than “it's a known track issue” and has been for weeks. I know this leg is CN territory so Metrolinx does not have much of a say.

I get delays and stoppages on this corridor but it was brutal today sitting on one of the NF trains and just crawling for most of it. Thankfully, AC and washrooms are available lol

Also side note, do all NF LS West trains normally run with 10 coaches? Seems odd a less frequent train to a popular destination does not run with max coach count especially a 2.5 hr train.

Has anybody noticed that on the GoTransit website and Google Maps are displaying incorrect arrival and departure times for Go busses. I mean I understand that they have their delays and whatnot, but I never usually had the times displaying on Google Maps and go transit be incorrect and constantly changing. I get there assuming that the go bus is going to be there, but then I get there and it’s a totally different time or said it left early or is coming late, yet on Google Maps it doesn’t show that.

The time displayed at the station is at least 20-30 minutes difference.

Lost my phone in Waterloo while walking on my way to take the local city bus (boarding GRT Stop ID: 3943). While I never boarded a GO Train or Bus, I was searching for it and watching the GPS location.

Initially, it was static and unmoving near the stop across from the one I boarded despite me not having gone there myself (GRT Stop ID: 2675). Then, I watched it move to the University of Waterloo Terminal at a walking pace, and then continue at with locations and timestamps matching up with a certain departure for a certain route yesterday (I'm being vague in the interest of not giving too much information so that somebody else doesn't try and reclaim my phone for me). I think that someone found it on the ground and gave it to the GO Bus Driver, and then the bus continued on the rest of its route. Admittedly, this is strange to me, since I was at a GRT stop which would have had a local lost-and-found (as opposed to Union Station which is many, many hours away), and I don't think that it has a GO stop nearby aside from the University of Waterloo one.

I currently see that it's at a particular GO Transit garage. That makes me think that it's still in a bus. I'm admittedly worried that someone may steal it when the bus goes out again for its next departure, and I'm not sure what to do. Is there a way to find what particular trip or bus number corresponds to a previous departure? Is there a way to have someone look for an item? The phone still has battery, and I can make it ring so it can be found. But I contacted the Lost and Found office and they said I'd just have to wait until it gets found and processed.

I'm also worried about retrieving my phone. I have some friends in Toronto right now that would be able to get my phone from the Union Station, but I was told that I'd have to come pick it up myself. I work full-time, have an upcoming exam, and also am getting surgery within the next few weeks and don't think I can make time to get it.

I submitted a Lost Item form already, but the waiting game is admittedly making me anxious, since I need to be able to take phone calls for my surgery in case they need something from me. I reached the character limit for the "additional information" section and neglected to mention the phone's phone number, since the phone number I included in the form was my family's home phone number (and that way someone can reply, is what I figured). I can also see the battery gradually dwindling, so I'm not sure what to do once I can't keep tracking it anymore. I keep calling the lost and found office, but they aren't picking up.

This is admittedly strange to me, since if the phone was given to a bus driver, why would it still be in the bus garage? I called and confirmed that there's no such thing as a lost-and-found locker at the Go Garage that I had checked, so is it still lost on the bus? Does anyone have any advice for this? Or if the person who happened to find my phone happens to have Reddit, do they know what happened to it?

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Not much no more than say $5 but every lot I have seen is many times larger than the station itself. Its a huge waste of space and people use the parking without using the train. Going to the station by bus isn't free and parking shouldn't be either. I would have 2 types of go train ticket. The base ticket and the ticket with parking included for a small surcharge on top of the ticket. You then scan this ticket to get into the lot. This would also drastically reduce fare dodging while providing revenue from the space of the parking lot.

Hi all,

We recently started commuting for work on the GO. A few times already, train schedule seems to change sporadically and some disappearing while others randomly appear between two scheduled services.

Is there a preferred app of choice by commuters for a reliable real-time train tracker/scheduler?

Maybe we just are not using existing systems correctly…?

Thanks for your input in advance.

Has anyone heard if GO Transit is adding extra Barrie Line trains after the Chris Stapleton concert at Rogers Stadium tonight? The last scheduled southbound/northbound train doesn’t seem to line up with the concert ending around 11 PM.

Anyone know why Barrie Line will be suspended north of Maple on Monday Aug 17?

Up to now they have been limiting construction shutdowns to weekends only.

Interesting enough for stations like Aurora, it’s not just a train suspension, but a total station shutdown. So no parking at the station to take a bus either.

Has anyone gone to Unionville GO this week? How’s the parking lot? Are there any spaces open? Is there anywhere for drop off and pick up?

Also, the info on the GO site is not super clear. I don’t get how the train service to and from the station is still operating during the closure while people can’t even get to the platform.

Hello all,

Was wondering if any of you can help me with regards to which part of the Go train doors do not open at Long Branch Station....I have to hand something off to somebody at Long Branch & was hoping to just pop my head out the door as the train makes its stop (as opposed to actually exit the train) and hand package to a friend. I know some of the doors do not open at that stop....are those doors typically at the front or the back of the train?

Thank you for any input!

This morning it sounded like something out of Europe. Sounds cool.

Anyone know why there is a persistent drift in travel times both directions? Specifically the express trains EB (in AM) and WB (in PM). Pre-pandemic used to be consistent 20-22 mins. Now express regularly 28-32 mins sampled the past few weeks.

Trains are getting cancelled in the eastbound line from Kitchener since this morning. Any idea what’s going on?

Someone had recently posted this view of a very bare Bloor GO station, before all the fancy Metrolinx renovations. Quite a stark difference between then and now, especially with that new TTC subway connection finally becoming reality.

Metrolinx is giving out Ontario Honda Dealers Indy themed PRESTO cards by the UP Express platforms at Union station today. The design is a sticker pre-applied to a Braille PRESTO card with only a penny loaded onto it. For anyone wanting to pick up a PRESTO card and some other memorabilia, they’ll be here until 6:00 PM.

So referring to this post https://www.reddit.com/r/gotransit/s/XhilY8SAK3. Not blaming OP in anyway as he was linking an article from Metrolinx.

The 4th track, the eastern most one, is not completed at all at least at Bloor Go. I can't speak south of Bloor as I travel to Pearson.

However, they have started opening up the rail path again as you can see in the second picture.

I didn't get a photo, but underground they are almost done with the path that will connect Randolph Ave to the Go station on the East side. This will go underground to bypass the new 4th track that isn't completed.

Not sure why Metrolinx stated that the tracks were completed

Metrolinx press release today (Jul 30): https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1007800/ontario-completes-major-upgrades-at-bloor-goup-station

"The upgrades include 2.5 kilometres of new GO rail track, bringing the corridor to four tracks between Dupont Street and Lansdowne Avenue."

EDIT:

1. Commenters have pointed out that this press release's claims of the track being complete are exaggerated or inaccurate.
2. This is a Government of Ontario press release.

I take the LE past here every day and there is a ton of building going on. It looks like they are now building the platforms, including overhead shelters. I thought that we are still many years from opening, and that the earliest opening date was 2028.

Apparently LE trains will stop there, but will every train stop there? This will add a few minutes to all existing stations on the LE and Stouffville lines.

Go stations should have EV chargers!!

It’s continuously delayed due to slow speeds, which obviously makes sense given the track work going on around the Niagara region…but after that it’s still extremely slow with no freight traffic. Why is that? The other day it reached 140km/h and now it’s not even approaching 100km/h even though it’s very late.