New, adjusted GO Bus service for Kitchener corridor

TORONTO, March 14, 2012 /CNW/ - Starting March 31, GO Transit will be increasing and adjusting bus service within its Kitchener corridor. Some school GO Bus service will be reduced in April as the school term comes to an end. Passengers are encouraged to check gotransit.com/schedules for specific schedule information.

Highlights of the changes include:

30 - Kitchener/Bramalea GO Bus

• All westbound trips will now also serve the Kitchener Bus Terminal by request.

31 - Georgetown GO Bus

• Five new weekday eastbound trips departing Bramalea GO Station at 6:50 p.m., 7:20, 7:50, 8:50 and 9:50, then serving Malton GO Station and Union Station.
• Four new weekend and holiday trips in either direction serving Bramalea and Malton GO Stations and Union Station
• Some weekday trips have been extended to also serve University of Guelph
• Some weekend trips have been extended to also serve Georgetown GO Station, Georgetown Market, Norval, and the Mount Pleasant and Brampton GO Stations.
• Five trips from Brampton GO Station will no longer serve Bramalea and Malton GO Stations and run express to Union Station after stopping at Steeles and Rutherford. Service to Bramalea and Malton will be accommodated by new trips.

32 - Brampton Trinity Common/North York GO Bus

• All trips will now make all stops to York Mills GO Terminal. Some stop times have been adjusted.
• Some trips will now serve the new Carpool Lot at Williams Parkway and Hwy. 410. Eastbound trips will now depart Trinity Common five minutes earlier.
• Four new trips will serve Trinity Common, the new Williams Parkway Carpool Lot, Bramalea GO Station and York Mills GO Terminal
• All trips are now accessible at select stops.

33 - Guelph/North York GO Bus

• Some weekday trips have been extended to also serve University of Guelph
• Some school service reduced to reflect typically lower demand during spring and summer

39 - Guelph/Bramalea GO Bus

• All trips will continue to serve Guelph Central GO Station and University of Guelph but by request only.

For specific schedule information, please visit gotransit.com/schedules, or call 1.888.GET ON GO (438.6646) or 1.800.387.3652 TTY.

We will do our best to be on time, visit us at gotransit.com/promise/on-time.

GO Transit is Metrolinx's interregional public transit system linking Toronto with the surrounding regions of the Greater Toronto & Hamilton Area. GO carries about 57 million passengers a year in an extensive network of train and bus services that spans over 10,000 square kilometres. Metrolinx is an agency of the Province of Ontario. Follow GO on Twitter and Facebook.

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