Recently completed improvements to GO Transit’s Lakeshore East rail line will relieve congestion and reduce delays for the 44,700 riders who use the corridor each weekday.
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Recently completed improvements to GO Transit’s Lakeshore East rail line will relieve congestion and reduce delays for the 44,700 riders who use the corridor each weekday.
The $69.5 million Lakeshore East corridor expansion projects included the construction of a third track on the main rail line from the Danforth GO Station to Scarborough GO Station. This additional track will improve train service, increasing the efficiency of the commute for the passengers who travel along the corridor.
To improve efficiency, GO Transit has also introduced 12-car passenger trains, the longest in North America, allowing over 300 new riders per train.
In addition to track expansion and longer trains, bridges at Warden, Danforth, St. Clair and Eglinton Avenues were expanded to accommodate the additional track, and the pedestrian overpass at Woodrow Avenue was replaced. Station, tunnel and platform improvements were made at Eglinton, Scarborough and Danforth GO Stations, including lengthening platforms to accommodate 12-car GO trains.
The expansion projects along the corridor began in October 2005 and were completed with the tunnel installation work at Scarborough Station at the end of July.
“Our ridership numbers have been increasing as more and more people are choosing GO Transit,” said Greg Ashbee, GO TRIP’s Rail Expansion Program Manager in a statement. “At the end of the day, we are always working to keep up with increasing ridership numbers and to provide the most efficient and reliable service possible.”
Over a billion people have taken the GO Train or the GO Bus since GO Transit began operating in May 1967. Today, GO Transit carries more than 50 million passengers annually or nearly 200,000 passengers on a typical weekday.
The Lakeshore East Corridor expansion projects are part of the GO Transit Rail Improvement Program (GO TRIP), a $1 billion-dollar expansion initiative funded by the federal and provincial governments and local municipalities through the Canada Strategic Infrastructure Fund.
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