Bike Walk Bus Toronto

Last week, I took a small trip to Glen Williams, in Halton Hills. To get there, I got off at Georgetown GO, on the Kitchener Line, a station I had only used once prior. I found the station layout confusing, and found that the station was functionally lacking. As such, I was inspired to rank every GO station. In total, I will be ranking the 69 GO stations, 67 of which I have used, from worst to best, across a few parts. I will not be ranking London, St Marys, and Stratford, since they operate only as part of a pilot service which is ending soon anyways. My ranking will be subjective, and there isn't a specific scoring system, but I will consider connections, walkability, and functionality principally. While GO train service will be considered, limited train services does not immediately mean a station is bad, especially if there are good GO bus connections. Additionally, I will shoutout a café that I like within walking distance, as applies. This post will focus on the worst nine s...

 I have talked about this regularly in past posts, but I hate when people visit another city, come back to Toronto, and say "oh, Toronto sucks!" I don't disagree that Toronto has many, very serious issues, but takes like this lean into what I like to call 'tourist vision'. You view Toronto negatively because you experience the short falls across the city, especially since you probably have to experience a commute. You view other cities positively because you are only seeing the curated image that the city puts on. If you spend all your time in Le Plateau, of course you will see Montreal only positively. You never have to experience a commute from Pointe-aux-Trembles to West Island, so you don't care to give those negatives space. The REV along St-Denis. While Montreal has had a lot of success with their pedestrian- and cyclist-first policies, uneven distribution of safe infrastructures across the city create a gradient of what parts of the city are more import...