• Gnumile
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    3 months ago

    I went from Guelph to Toronto recently for a baseball game with my partner. Via rail was somewhere between $40 and $50 (I forget the exact amount) per person each way. We drove instead.

    In short, make transit a more viable option and maybe more people will use it.

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      3 months ago

      I live in Hamilton and work in Milton, to use Go transit to get to work I would have to leave my house 3 hours before my shift, it’s only 30km! What the hell is wrong with the GTA?!?

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        3 months ago

        I’d love something like a Niagara - Kitchener go line and have Hamilton be a hub, really. I recently looked into commuting to Toronto for work, Yeah no, it’s so bad for us non GTA but still Golden horseshoe people.

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      3 months ago

      You wanted to take the Go. It is much cheaper and more convenient. The trade off is customer service and ostensibly comfort. (Though the via stock is pretty fucking old these days…) But the Via staff treat you like a human being and make an effort to solve whatever travel emergency you have encountered.

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        3 months ago

        This was a Sunday and the Go train only runs Monday - Friday for us

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          3 months ago

          ungh right? why can’t we have basic regional transit??