New service for Richmond Hill and Barrie GO Bus passengers

TORONTO, Dec. 14, 2010 /CNW/ - Starting January 1, 2011, GO Transit will be making changes to some bus schedules in the Richmond Hill and Barrie corridors. These changes will accommodate demand and better reflect actual travel times.

Extra trips, servicing Union Station, Aurora GO Station, and Newmarket GO Station, have been added due to increased ridership.

In some cases, bus routes within the Richmond Hill and Barrie corridors will be adjusted five minutes earlier to better reflect actual travel times. Also, buses servicing the Bradford GO Station will begin using the new bus loop on the station grounds, eliminating the stop across the street from the station.

Passengers are encouraged to refer to their schedules online at gotransit.com/schedules.

Highlights of Richmond Hill and Barrie GO Bus service changes:

    
    -  Richmond Hill GO Bus
       -  There are minor adjustments to better reflect typical travel
          times on some trips.
    -  Barrie-Bradford GO Bus
       -  A new weekday southbound trip will depart Aurora GO Station at
          5:20 a.m., serve the Aurora Carpool Lot at 5:28 and arrive at the
          Union Station GO Bus Terminal at 6:00. Two new weekday northbound
          trips will depart Union Station at 6:55 p.m. and 7:55 and run
          express to Aurora.
       -  A new weekday southbound trip will depart East Gwillimbury GO
          Station at 10:30 a.m., serve the Newmarket GO Bus Terminal at
          10:42, Aurora GO Station at 10:55, the Aurora Carpool Lot at 11:02,
          and arrive at Union at 11:40.
       -  Three new weekday northbound trips will depart Union at 9:30 p.m.,
          10:30 and 11:30 and run express to Newmarket.
    

For specific schedule information, please visit www.gotransit.com/whatsnew, 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 the Province of Ontario's interregional public transit system linking Toronto with the surrounding regions of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). GO carries nearly 55 million passengers a year in an extensive network of train and bus services that spans over 10,000 square kilometres. GO Transit is a division of Metrolinx, an agency of the Province of Ontario. Follow GO on Twitter and Facebook.

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