By Staff

September 24, 2015

BURLINGTON, ON

A fourth GO station for Burlington? It is in the works.

Metrolinx has identified the area between Walkers Line and Cumberland as one of a number of areas on the Lakeshore \West corridor that are under consideration

Metrolinx plans to hold municipal meetings in the fall o gather local knowledge of the specific sites and provide background to stakeholders. Public meetings will follow.

Metrolinx clearly understands there is a need for an additional GO station capacity. Where do they get their information?

In a statement Metrolinx said they “identified station sites based on station spacing, transportation connectivity and ridership, available space for a station along with technical and operational concerns.”

Meanwhile, Mayor Goldring would like to know when Metrolinx will complete the work they started at the Burlington GO station. The Molinaro people may well have their five structure project next to the Burlington GO station built and occupied before all the GO station upgrades are done.

The key words in the Metrolinx announcement were “transportation connectivity”. The city needs to find a way to get people to use transit to get to the GO stations – they’ve yet to come up with an idea the public will buy into.

There is a serious need for some creative thinking and more in the way of public education – what we are doing now just isn’t sustainable.