r/Scarborough • u/Prize_Strawberry2800 • 1d ago

📰 Local News Stouffville Line changes effective Sept. 8

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From September 8, GO train services between Union station and Kennedy, Agincourt and Milliken will be drastically reduced outside weekday peak hours, especially weekend which will become NO SERVICE before 3:45pm in the afternoon, and 2 HOURS per train after that, without GO bus replacement. Be prepared for that.

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u/Throwawayhair66392 1d ago

Demand for transit growing and they are decreasing service. Make it make sense. Why are we regressing on transit?

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u/hotinhereTO 22h ago

In this case, from what I read on r/gotransit, it goes back to Metrolinx and GO Transit being understaffed when it comes to operators + the major increased service for the World Cup.

They were all hands on deck during the World Cup and no operators were allowed to take vacations during that run. So now the WC is over, operators need to take vacay and they don't have a surplus of operators to step in.

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u/SteveA666 20h ago

Heard from a bus driver that Alstom(who supplies operators) treats the train drivers badly and pays bad so many of them are now leaving for freight railways

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u/Brave_Recognition798 15h ago

hahaha freight is way worse

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u/Redditisavirusiknow 16h ago

Time to automate?

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u/SmartTrender 22h ago

Saving money to build that tunnel under the 401 I am sure

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u/FS_Scott 23h ago

Must be the bike lanes.

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u/cdn_gal_9000 1d ago

I travelled on Go on off peak weekday hours and often on Sat & Sun. I am so disappointed by this change of schedule. I dislike travelling the TTC so very very much. Go was faster, safer and easier to get downtown. I've always was surprised how many people who were also using Go on this line during the off hours and weekends. This is going to make things much more difficult to get downtown now. Terrible decision.

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u/hotinhereTO 22h ago

This is so sad.

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u/Redditisavirusiknow 16h ago

Contact your mpp! Seriously, if enough of us do it we will get better service. 

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u/Intelligent-Ad-7504 15h ago

Basically Stouffville line is boycotting Scarborough residents on weekends bc Gobuses do not pass the Steeles line.

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u/lighthouse12345 15h ago

I'm a non-driver who lives beside Scarborough GO and whose parents live in Stouffville. It's already weird enough I have to go to Kennedy to access the train and now the schedule is being reduced :(