Metrolinx will conduct a series of public meetings at various locations to present information about their plans for the GO Transit network.
| Location | Date and Time |
|---|---|
| Markham Village Community Centre 6041 Highway 7 Markham, ON L3P 3A7 |
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Southshore Community Centre 205 Lakeshore Drive Barrie, ON L4N 7Y9 |
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Aurora Community Centre 1 Community Centre Lane Aurora, ON L4G 7B1 |
Monday, February 24, 2020 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Scarborough Civic Centre 150 Borough Drive Toronto, ON M1P 4N7 |
Monday, February 24, 2020 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Evergreen Brick Works 550 Bayview Avenue Toronto, ON M4W 3X8 |
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Central Recreation Centre 519 Drury Lane Burlington, ON L7R 2X3 |
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Metropolitan Centre 3840 Finch Avenue East Toronto, ON M1T 3T4 |
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Lucie & Thornton Blackburn Conference Centre at George Brown College 80 Cooperage Street Toronto, ON M5A 0J3 |
Thursday, February 27, 2020 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Vaughan City Hall 2141 Major Mackenzie Drive West Vaughan, ON L6A 1T1 |
Saturday, February 29, 2020 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
| Abilities Centre 55 Gordon Street Whitby, ON L1N 0J2 |
Saturday, February 29, 2020 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
For the full set of documents, go first to the list of “participation opportunities”, then click through to an individual project page, and finally select the “Important Documents” tab. The same set of documents appears on every project’s page.
An important note here is that electrification is still officially an important part of the overall plan. The provincial flirtation with Hydrogen Trains seems to have disappeared at least for the projects on the major GO corridors that Metrolinx owns.
This is intriguing because Metrolinx has been sidestepping the decision on technology by saying that the private sector partners in the expansion plan would make that choice. Now, their literture is full of electrification including one document about effects on vegetation along the rail corridors to provide clearance for the infrastructure, and another on electromagnetic fields.
Several key documents are online as I write this on the morning of February 18, 2020.
- Station Overview : Despite its title, this document covers many other topics, notably planned service levels for the GO corridors.
- Station Studies : The title of this document is misleading because it contains little about actual stations, but a lot about environmental issues and a catalog of “cultural heritage” features which are bridges on the Richmond Hill and Lakeshore West corridors.
- Infrastructure : This is the most extensive of the documents with information about bridges, stations and yard expansion plans.
- Don Branch Storage Area Roll Map : The only detailed map of proposed infrastructure online at this point (February 18, 2020 at 5 pm) is a map showing the proposed use of the Don Branch as a three-train storage facility northeast of Union Station. There are no detailed maps for other projects.
- Vegetation Removal Program
- Electromagnetic Fields and Interference
Steve Munro 