Bike Walk Bus Toronto

 In a previous blog post , I spoke about how the lack of GO bus stops on rail-replacement routes within the City of Toronto was one of the most significant examples of downtown-centrism in our region transit system. Recently, I was thinking about how other GO Transit policies punish passengers taking trips within Toronto that aren't downtown. In this blog post, I will provide a few examples of how GO Transit prioritizes downtown--suburban trips at the expense of numerous others. Transfer Barriers I won't rehash his article, but Sean Marshall recently wrote about how the new One Fare removes only one of a number of barriers between TTC and GO Transit. Because the TTC network was built around the subway system, connections to GO stations tend to be pretty poor. Considering that GO stations were built with a parking focus, transferring to connecting bus routes can be a pain. Sean gives examples of Old Cummer and Etobicoke North, which are two stations on major arterial roads, wit...