Comment 66349

By lawrence (registered) - website | Posted July 18, 2011 at 11:26:20 in reply to Comment 66341

I agree with the whole day service question, Robert. I actually think the Bus from Hamilton to Burlington (Aldershot after 9am), is not much of an inconvenience and actually more comfortable than the train. I can lay my seat back, place my coffee in the little 'cargo' bag on the backs of the chairs. They are nice and cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The lights are turned off at night where they aren't on a GO train or a city bus, with little overhead lights you can use if you want to read.

And as you mentioned, the Union Station bus is faster with it being direct. The Lakeshore view is much nicer form the train perhaps, but I personally wouldn't be upset if all-day GO wasn't on the immediate horizon. It does have to go through Hamilton to Niagara ASAP though. I had to go to Niagara Falls on business one day and my co-worker dropped me off at the Grimsby GO stop on the way back. If I hadn't just caught the GO bus into Hamilton, I would have had to wait another 2 hours for the next one. Niagara-bound is long overdue where GO service is concerned.

In the evening, every other train comes into Hamilton so the only reason you would have to transfer in Burlington to a bus, was if you were on the 'every second' train that ends at Burlington before heading back to Union.

As for direction marking. That is an area lacking in so many forms from GO to highway signage. The RHVP is the worst. Red Hill north or south. Really. What the heck does that mean to a visitor to this city or someone who has never grasped the way north/south/east/west runs in Hamilton. Every sign should add: RHVP north to the QEW or RHVP south to the Hamilton Mountain or something to that affect. To many, north would allude to ascending which of course isn't the case where RHVP is concerned. The fact that the on ramp to the southbound (mountain-bound) lanes is on the left, is probably even more confusing for drivers.

Comment edited by lawrence on 2011-07-18 11:29:02

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