A Well-Connected Region: GO Transit and Peterborough
Recently, I was reading a blog post from Youtuber RMTransit , where he spoke about how GO Transit's train offerings being west-heavy create some operational issues at Union Station. I think it's a good piece, but I wish that he had explored a bit more into how GO Transit's service overall is west-heavy. I'm not saying that service is entirely adequate (especially between Hamilton and Kitchener), but the GO Transit west of Toronto is far more useful than east of it. I bring up Kitchener and Guelph as cities that are not within the Greater Toronto Area, but instead sit in the larger Greater Golden Horseshoe. In the east, there's only one city that really comes to mind here: Peterborough. Peterborough's 85,000 residents is smaller than Guelph, but the service quality is exponentially worse. Guelph has a station on the Kitchener Line, and is served by GO bus routes 29, 31, 33, and 48. Peterborough, however, is only served by the 88 bus. You can obviously make an ar...