Major expansion of GO Transit service across southern Ontario proposed by province [Video]

The Ontario government is asking transit agency Metrolinx to massively expand GO train service in southern Ontario.

On Jan. 9, Premier Doug Ford and Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria released a letter to Metrolinx chair Donald Wright asking to “explore the next generation of GO passenger train” service in the Greater Golden Horseshoe area. Calling the proposal–a long-standing one frequently floated by the City of Mississauga–GO 2.0, the province asks Metrolinx to work towards converting train lines currently used for freight to passenger rail. 

In the letter, Ford and Sarkaria say service on the Kitchener and Milton lines could be expanded by diverting freight rail from existing lines through the construction of a freight rail bypass adjacent to the Highway 407 corridor between the Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) main line near Trafalgar Road in Milton and the Canadian National (CN) bypass line at Bramalea. 

While Ford and Sarkaria’s …