By Pepper Parr
June 15th, 2016
BURLINGTON, ON
Fifteen minute service during those hours when it count? That is in the planning stage
An additional GO station in Burlington – there are people who are out there scouting different properties.
Electrification of the GO system is also in the planning stages.
Possible – probable? – location for a fourth GO station in Burlington. Walkers Line on the current StressCrete property
Someone wants more of us to take the GO train – and for those poor soul who find themselves having to brave traffic on the QEW every day this must sound like some kind of an advertisement that you don’t think is really going to deliver on the promise.
But if the rumblings and the comments being made have any truth in them the GO people have begun to talk seriously on just where an additional GO station in Burlington might be located.
There was a lot of talk about an additional station be created at Cumberland and tying it into a grade separation at the same time.
The more recent talk seems to be on Walkers Line where Stress Crete is located,
Stresscrete is the company that makes light poles out of concrete. There is a large yard within their property that could be made into a GO station – far far too early to tell yet if that one will come to fruition.
Upgrades to the south side parking and the entrance to the Burlington station have yet to be completed. There was a point at which even the Mayor couldn’t get a completion date out of the GO people.
Given the rate at which the changes being made to the Burlington GO station that seem to be taking forever – there is no value in thinking about which station you would choose to use.
Whichever – expect whatever gets built to have all kind of electric charging stations to be part of the set up.
Change is coming in a big way.
Roger; I can’t find anything in the Big Move literature that references another Go Station in Burlington. Who proposed this at the Bateman meeting? Just a random citizen or an official with actual knowledge of planning?
Editor’s note:
Officials from GO have been in Burlington a number of times looking at possible sites. This is being actively considered – right now there isn’t anyone who wants to say very much. GO seems to be keeping their cards pretty close to their chests – at one point the Mayor said he wasn’t able to get much in the way of information either.
The station was proposed at a recent open house at Bateman High School – the Walkers location was on the list of possible stations and is in the long term plan for the BIG MOVE for GO TRANSIT.
Who are the people that are “talking”?
“But if the rumblings and the comments being made” – By Who?
“There was a lot of talk about an additional station…” – By Who?
“The more recent talk seems to be on Walkers Line where Stress Crete is located” – Who talked recently?
Incomplete Burlington station – just another one of Burlington’s embarrassing projects!!