What I'm most excited about is the
5:50pm non-stop express GOtrain that runs during weekdays during PanAm (July 13-17, 20-24).
A completely non-stop GO train that makes no stops between Toronto and Hamilton (West Harbour)!
Temporarily, it will be my evening commute from Toronto work back to Hamilton home. I've purchased a SoBi bike-share membership (1 month at $15) so I can test leaving my car behind at home, instead of driving to Aldershot. SoBi is good for 1-way bike commutes so I can choose to take the bus in the other direction if the weather is bad, and I'm allowed to dock the bike nearer my home sometimes (SoBi permits off-station docking at any pole such as a stop sign). I often work too late to make the last 6:30pm Hamilton train back to downtown, but it's summertime and I have additional incentives to catch the PanAm express.
Wish this West Harbour nonstop express GOtrain continued after PanAm, but I'll be taking advantage of it during my evening commute back home to Hamilton!
While on the subject of PanAm and GO trains -- panam tix behave like daypasses for almost all of GTHA transit. Do a bunch of free GOtrain rides to Toronto with some PanAm tickets. Some of the cheaper PanAm games tickets cost less than a round-trip GO ride from Hamilton!. Do couple or three GO train trips in one day! Or four. Regardless of whatever boondoggles PanAm went through I might as well support cheering on some disabled ParaPanAm athletes or aspiring athletics university students, in a fun crowd. I also have PanAm tix (for some events) and apparently, it's essentially an unlimited GTHA-wide daypass, so you can GTHA-hop everywhere for any reason, before and/or after the games (Metrolinx and TTC confirmed on twitter when I asked, yes, it's like a daypass. They want you to keep your car at home even if you use your ticket to travel for other reasons than PanAm before&after your ticketed game event). Find a cheap tix, take a day off and tour GTHA for free all day, no car, no gas, no transit cost. HSR, MiWay, TTC, GO, all free all day long. Or just piggyback your work commute onto it.