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Originally Posted by SteelTown
I would say a good majority of GTA commuters from Hamilton travel by car and not GO Trainsit. The best way to attract these riders is to have convenient parking at the GO Station and place a park and ride system.
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There is convenient parking at private lots close to the station new, and they are now empty when the GO trains leave in the morning. Are you saying people will change their commuter habits when the parking is run by GO instead of a private operator?
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Once you introduce non stop GO Train service to Hamilton watch the parking issue demand explode.
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I thought those trains were running out of the James N. station, not GO Centre? My understanding was GO Centre was going to be used exclusively for rush hour trains.
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I thought that was GO Trainsit makes huge revenue from parking, I believe it's $20 million a year.
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Parking at GO is free on a first come, first served basis. There is the ability to rent spot, but I highly doubt it generates $20M per year as you would need thousands and thousands of spots of reserved parking spaces (28,000 plus spots by my math), and they don't exist anywhere close to that number,
http://www.gotransit.com/public/en/parking/parking.htm
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By the way I would say most here would pick a parking garage over a surface parking lot any day.
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Why a parking at all, most people on this board want to spend hundreds of millions on LRT. Wanting to provide more parking when there is no demand seems non-sensical to me.
And those now driving to Toronto who you hope to entice onto the GO train will either have to walk, or take TTC to get to work once they arrive in Toronto. If we can't get them to ride HSR what's going to make them want to ride the TTC, or walk 15 - 20 minutes on the other end?