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Originally posted by DigiNut Not only does GO have extremely limited coverage, but most of it is by bus and that is not rapid transit. There's no rational reason for anybody to drive to a GO station instead of just driving to their destination.

Most GO bus routes are BRT bus rapid transit and use the highway whenever possible. The core GO ridership are people who drive to the stations and take the train the rest of the way to avoid the dvp and gardiner, 401 ect.

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Originally posted by Dr. DAS I'm sorry, what?

i suggest you contact Tess Kalinowski about that.

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Originally posted by Pett Most GO bus routes are BRT bus rapid transit and use the highway whenever possible. The core GO ridership are people who drive to the stations and take the train the rest of the way to avoid the dvp and gardiner, 401 ect.

And this is why GO is such a small service in comparison to most commuter rail services globally.

Why am i going to buy a car, pay insurance, etc just to drive it 2 miles to buy a train ticket?

Public transit should be an alternate to cars. ANd check out where they build go stations. usually in the middle of nowhere where you have no choice but to park in a 20 acre parking lot. Perhaps if things were planned a bit better our population would be built around the train station and bus terminals like say i dunno, pretty much the rest of the world I think then we could justify more rail lines and increased service to perhaps one train every 10 minutes. Wouldnt that be nice?

The key to our problems is planning. Sadly we keep making the same mistakes over and over again with 5 square kilometre blocks of nothing but low density housing and nary a store or business to be found. I dont like having to get into my car everytime i want a loaf of bread but unfortunately most of our country is built this way!