#Go transit

[papyrussemi]

life goal:

get a job at go transit so i can become the canadian counterpart to amtrak-official

[newsfromstolenland]

If you are hopping on the subway after taking a GO train downtown or using a TTC bus to continue your journey, you could soon find yourself saving a few dollars per trip. Associate Minister of Transportation Stan Cho has confirmed to CP24.com that the Ford government will be adding the TTC to its fare integration program with GO Transit “by the end of the year.”

[...] Commuters using GO Transit to connect to service provided by more than a dozen local agencies haven’t had to pay a second fare since March 2022, including on most transit services in the GTA. But the TTC was left out of the initial rollout and its riders have continued to have to pay twice, even in cases where their journeys begin and end in Toronto.

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Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

[civ5crab]

Bombardier Bilevel is a Canadian Bi Icon.

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

you seem like you are from north america, so i'd be interested to hear: do you have regional public transit? what is it like? i seem to have never heard anyone discuss it. here (czech republic, central europe) the standard is that towns of around 100 people are connected to the national system by a reasonable number of buses (at least few a day) and towns of 1000 people are basically as a rule connected by hourly or bihourly service. (considering that my country is aproximatly big as one state, is there at least something similiar in one american or canadian state?)

thanks in advance

So for one the US and Canada are too large for national buses most of it is done at the state/province or Metropolitan level I'm in Seattle we have two transit operators King County Metro (the county bus operator) and Sound Transit (they run light rail, commuter rail, intercity buses, and the Tacoma Streetcar) but oftentimes a state DOT will run some regional train service (usually as a partnership with Amtrak or VIA rail or in the case of Metrolinx just run their own thing)

The Amtrak Midwest and Amtrak California services are a good examples of this but they only serve a few areas and only run a few times per day and usually there is absolutely nothing in rural areas anyway the only Electrified service in country is along the Northeast corridor and one route out of Chicago into Indiana oh and also the Keystone corridor and the commuter railroads in Denver and San Francisco

Also the largest US city without any intercity train service is Phoenix Arizona which is the 5th largest city in the entire country behind Houston which only has a single tri-weekly train The Sunset Limited that runs from New Orleans to Los Angeles (although I think they are trying to reroute it through Phoenix)

The only US state with comparable service to Europe is New Jersey since the fastest section of Northeast Corridor runs straight through it and most towns their received electrified train service in 1920s new Jersey has a statewide Transit operator called NJ Transit

Although the Toronto area has a pretty transit system and it's being massively expanded right now GO transit (run by Metrolinx) is planning to electrify several lines over the next few years and the TTC is building several new Light Rail lines and the New Ontario Line Subway

[aryburn-trains]

A GO commuter train arrives at Toronto Union Station. These locos were sold to Amtrak in 1990. February 21, 1984

[gov-ontario-transit-official]

A GO train engine car with no passenger space, facing backwards, passing into the station

A Bombardier BiLevel Coach, passing by.

Trains are pretty sweet. I have like 20 pictures of trains and nature and whatnot, but I don't want them to come out sideways.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

More wins from organized labour! 🙌

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[20th-century-railroading]

hot #904

Rolling east with CP hotshot train #904 we have 3 leased GO transit F40's on this misty day, May 26, 1979 near Ayr, Ontario.

[ghostacolytev2]

GO East, young man

[yukina-himuro]

“Anything with wheels fascinates Brianna” -Marissa

[papyrussemi]

i'd say that we should build some sort of rail line along dundas street but then i realized it would just be a shittier lakeshore west

[writtenbygrimes]

Paper Sailboats

Paper Sailboats A wish upon a commuter train.

Motionless In a still of crystalline azure At peace with the birds Calm seeping from pores Escape this reality To sun-warmed skies Take me away Upon effervescent dreams With canvas and wind Across the glittering expanse That we may be, simply, Dots on the horizon Take me with you To your secret solitude Free, Til the end of the world

[civ5crab]

Petition to run Bombardier Bilevels on the White Pass and Yukon Route

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

You are trans.

Congratulations.

[*You did good* game music begins to play]

:3

[aryburn-trains]

Toronto

GO Transit FP7 power/cab car 901 departs from the east end of Toronto Union Station under the CN Tower. July 1981.

[spockvarietyhour]

To catch a thief, Metro police search railway tracks between Union Station and the SkyDome for an armed man who robbed a bank at 88 University Ave. 1991 [TPL Archives]