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Originally Posted by Beedok
I think they're doing the connection for West Harbour, otherwise the Stoney Creek stop would make very little sense.
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Yep. Exactly.
But Stoney Creek isn't opening till 2019.
We could make use of pass-through GO trains much sooner (2016) --
Niagara Seasonal GO Trains would also provide all-day weekend Toronto GO train service to Hamilton.
(These weekend semiexpress trains are faster than weekday commuter trains; only 55 minutes to Toronto)
16 existing trains per weekend, 8 towards Toronto, 8 towards Niagara.
So weekend 2-way service with Toronto AND 2-way service with Niagara Falls, via an
existing GO train.
Existing GO trains that passed West Harbour every weekend from late spring through early fall.
We can't have West Harbour GO ignore these great opportunity of existing GO trains till 2019.
This is what the article advocates: Get those Niagara trains stopping ASAP at West Harbour GO. It's really a low-lying apple that would actually pay immediately (more fares -- the benefit of reducing the operating cost of running that existing Niagara GO train -- by picking up Hamiltonians and bringing visitors to Hamilton too)
So that's the purpose of the
Article Part #2 -- There's been conflicting information by multiple different parties about "when" these trains can stop. Rumors are there are potential delays caused by the interagency co-ordination (even things like the rumored John St bridge rebuild, financed by CN, which can be known to be slow). This article advocate getting the pre-requisites "sooner rather than later" to take advantage ASAP of the revenue-generating opportunity of stopping an existing GO train that currently just whooshes by.