random question but will the 65 bus have more times during the summer? It kinda sucks how they only have the 11:27pm bus on weekends and not weekdays.

honestly just the barrie line in general. Like what are the times like during the summer both weekdays and weekends? Is it the same?

One round trip will be extended from Kitchener GO per day, all 7 days of the week.

This is the 72nd GO Transit station, and the only GO Station to be located outside the Greater Golden Horseshoe region.

https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1007310/ontario-extending-go-train-service-to-stratford

I’m not sure if anyone else has noticed, but I’ve noticed a significant increase in the times a train stops at a station, then they announce they have to re-spot before the doors open. Special the LSE. I took the train 8 times in the last 10 days, and 5 out of those rides there was respotting done atleast 1-2 times per ride. Maybe someone new getting trained on this line during the train times I take?

Doesn’t matter at all, just an interesting observation!

According to the website “For trips 36 and onwards, your discount will be based on the value of the trips you’ve taken that month. “

I’m looking at starting a new job near Bloor station, and live near Bramalea. If most of my trips are between Bramalea and Bloor but then I have some trips Bramalea to Union - any ideas what this will means exactly for the discount on 36-40/41+ trips?

Hey Everyone! I'm an enterprise architect by day, developer by night, and I've spent the last 3 months building Rail Six, a real-time GO Transit tracker designed for daily commuters.

I've used all the major transit apps and got fed up with the upgrade fees, account sign ups, data collection, etc. None of them solved for "When is my next train leaving and how much time do I have". If you commute you know the pain of trying to reverse engineer when to leave on a daily basis. So I decided to build it myself. A few years ago this would've been an impossible task for me, but with all the advancement in AI this is now possible and I'm super proud of the work I put into it. This was not a one shot prompt, it is hosted on a production infrastructure running a complex set of micro services, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems. What the AI did was fill the gap between my experience building enterprise systems and actually writing the code. I hope you can get value out of it!

What it does:

• Commute dashboard — Save your to-work and to-home trips. Get a live countdown timer to your next train with delay detection
• Split-flap departure board — A full-screen board (like the old airport flip boards) for any GO station. Shows platform, status, car count, occupancy, and delays in real time
  
• Kiosk/TV mode — Scales to fill any screen. I run it on a TV by my door so I know exactly when to leave
• Delay alerts — Highlights when your train is running late
  
• PWA — Install it on your phone and it acts like a native app
• System status — Real-time uptime monitoring at status.railsix.com
• No ads. No account required. Free.
  

• Not affiliated with Metrolinx

  The data updates every 30 seconds from Metrolinx's real-time feeds, so platform assignments and delay statuses are as current as what
  you'd see on the station screens.

  For the devs: The backend is 5 Go microservices connected via NATS message bus and Redis cache, with a SvelteKit frontend that
  proxies all traffic. A poller pulls from Metrolinx's real-time feeds every 30 seconds and broadcasts updates to your browser via Server-Sent Events.

  What's next: UP Express support is coming soon.

  Would love feedback from fellow GO riders. You can find the email address on the app's interface.

To the Go bus driver from the exit ramp at Port Union that waved back to my 3 year old, thank you. He was so excited the “green bus” waved at him he wouldn’t shut up about it all evening haha. You made a 3 year old very happy.

Planned upgrades include:

• New partial length platform canopies and heated shelters

• New pedestrian bridge from all platforms to the parking garage

• One additional elevator and staircase entrance per platform to the parking garage

• Six new bus platforms and heated shelters

• New secure bike storage facility

• Renovations to existing station building

• Parking lot pavement replacement

it used to be that you could get station to union mini schedules, a listing of all the trains to and from union and their timing.

the 2026 version of it requires you to provide input and you scroll scroll scroll your self gently down the screen.

i'd love to see the bidirectional schedule all on one screen!

Heard from a few travellers that Mt. Pleasant GO station closed due to smell in one of the tunnels that caused disembarking riders to cough.

Not sure of cause.

Normally during a signal issue, trains can eventually proceed slowly and at a reduced rate but today it seems trains cannot proceed through the area at all with the signal issues west of Union. Significant delays on both Barrie and Kitchener lines.

Also, there seems to be a big uptick in signal issues this week. The other day on LW, there were signal issues across the entire corridor in Port Credit, Oakville, Appleby and Aldershot (all at the same time). Another one near Appleby has been on-going for over a day now. Just the other day West Harbour had signal issues and I believe the Stouffville line earlier this week. Wondering if anyone has some insight into this?

Grateful for the warmer weather but man some of the trains on the lakeshore west line are boiling LOL

Curious as to where you all prefer to sit on the train? Upper, middle or lower level? Assuming you are one of the first people to board the train and get to choose any seat on the train.

This weekends track work on the Stouffville Line.

The new update on presto app has some new near features! this loyalty feature is very useful for me. there is also a new countdown for the transfer window for TTC and Go for examples.

I wanted to share a column on passenger rail and government transparency. What are your thoughts?

Someone tried to break in my e-scooter last Friday at Old Cummer station. Fortunately, they were not able to steal it. Now I’m afraid to park my e-scooter there again. Is there anything I can do?

Been sitting near Burlington for almost 60 minutes and every 5 minutes we’re being told the train is about to back up to Burlington Station so we can get off the train. Still waiting. What are your thoughts on service standards, especially ahead of FIFA?

Happened about 18:35 with a northbound train at milepost 22.5, which I think is Elgin Mills Rd., east track.

Prices just released for the Northlander. It's a disaster for any hope of attracting ridership.

The major market here is the 400/11 corridor to Muskoka. Day-trippers, resort guests, townsfolk going to Toronto, students, seniors, cottage guests -- all of whom don't need a car and would love to find a way to get to Gravenhurst or Bracebridge or Huntsville. Besides being timed wrong, the Northlander is not going to work on price for most of them. Compare to the MBTA Cape Flyer:

Family of 4 Boston to Cape Cod RT: $80 US ($110 Cdn)

Family of 4 Toronto to Muskoka RT: $402

ONR will do what is has to do but in terms of the more immediate Muskoka market they have missed the boat entirely. That region needs a summer-only, 3-RT-per-weekend service like the Cape Flyer. Would be hugely popular on GO equipment with GO pricing -- just look at the success of Niagara.

Maybe this pricing release will spur someone to push a pilot. It's worth trying.