Guelph Central GO Station
| Guelph Central GO Station Via Rail and GO Transit Station |
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 Guelph Central Station |
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| Address | 79 Carden Street, Guelph, ON | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 43°32′39.7″N 80°14′50.1″W / 43.544361°N 80.24725°WCoordinates: 43°32′39.7″N 80°14′50.1″W / 43.544361°N 80.24725°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | No | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accessible |  |
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| Code | GO Transit: GUEP | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | City of Guelph | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 39 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Presto card | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Guelph Central GO Station, fully opening in May 2012, is the community's main inter-modal transportation terminal connecting together Guelph Transit, Via Rail, GO Transit, Greyhound Canada and Aboutown Bus Service.
It is located at 79 Carden St where the current Via Rail railway station is and running along Carden Street to where the former Guelph Bus Terminal was at 141 Macdonnell Street. The name was chosen with input from the community and all the transit service providers using the new station.[1]
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[edit] History
Built in 1911, the Guelph railway station is a classic example of early 20th Century Canadian railway station design and has been designated as a heritage structure per the Heritage Railway Stations Protection Act.[2] The station is staffed and wheelchair-accessible. Renovations inside the railway station building to accommodate Greyhound and GO Transit are expected to be completed by mid-2012.[3]
The Inter-modal Transit Terminal was first proposed in 2002 [4] as part of the Guelph-Wellington Transportation Study.[5]
The construction of the inter-modal transit terminal began in June 2010, and is scheduled to be completed by November 2011. The project will cost $8 million dollars for which $5.3 million was from the Provincial and Federal Infrastructure Stimulus Funds.[6]
The opening of the bus portion of the station was delayed from October 2011 to May 2012 to allow time for the renovations of the railway station building to be completed.[7] Due to this delay, the Greyhound and GO Bus services, which were temporally relocated to Lower Wyndham Stand Fountain Street, will remain there until at least the summer of 2012.[8]
[edit] Current and future services
[edit] Guelph Transit
Starting January 1, 2012, all Guelph Transit routes will be changed.[9] While it was originally planned to have the new bus routes meeting at the new station on the same date, this change has been delayed until the spring of 2012.[10]
[edit] Via Rail
Via Rail offers six trains daily (three in each direction) running between London and Toronto.
[edit] GO Transit
In the past, Guelph was in the also served by GO Transit trains (starting in 1990 as the terminus of the Georgetown line), but provincial cutbacks in 1993 led GO to pull back the railway service to Georgetown. In the fall of 2007, GO Transit announced it was starting an environmental assessment on track upgrades required to resume rail service to Guelph.[11] GO Train service was resumed on December 19, 2011, with two trains in the morning from Kitchener to Toronto, and two trains returning in the evening.[12] $18 million was spent to get this first stage operational, with further upgrades to come.[13] GO buses still serve Guelph, departing from the temporary Guelph Bus Terminal and from the University of Guelph. The GO buses will move to the new station upon completion.
[edit] Greyhound
- Toronto Quicklink [14]
- Kitchener / London (local service) [15]
[edit] Abouttown
- Daily Aboutown Transportation service to Hamilton and limited service to Owen Sound.[16]
[edit] University of Guelph
The University of Guelph has created a transit hub within the entrance mall area in front of the University Centre to accommodate increased GO Bus service. Guelph Transit, Aboutown Northlink and Greyhound Canada also added more bus services to campus.[17]
- Cooksville via Aberfoyle park & ride and Square One (GO Bus route 29) [18]
- York University via Aberfoyle park & ride, Meadowvale and Bramalea (GO Bus route 48) [19]
- There are several Guelph Transit bus routes that service the University.[20]
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Reconstruction of Guelph railway station in 2011
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Guelph Railway Station during reconstruction work in 2011
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[edit] References
- ^ http://www.guelphtribune.ca/news/guelph-central-station-top-pick-for-new-transportation-terminal/ Name top pick for new transit terminal - retrieved September 22, 2011
- ^ "Guelph Via-GO". Ontario Heritage Properties Database. http://www.hpd.mcl.gov.on.ca/scripts/hpdsearch/english/popupSearch.asp?pid=5975. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ "Transit terminal construction to continue". Ward 2 Guelph: The Deuce. 26 January 2011. http://ward2guelph.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/transit-terminal-construction-to-continue/. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
- ^ http://www.guelph.ca/uploads/ET_Group/engineering/GWTS_chapter5.pdf Retrieved 2011-09-11.
- ^ http://guelph.ca/living.cfm?itemid=68351&smocid=2093 Guelph-Wellington Transportation Study - Retrieved 2011-09-11.
- ^ http://guelph.ca/remastered/?p=5000 About the Inter-Modal Transit Terminal - Retrieved September 22, 2011
- ^ http://guelph.ca/remastered/?p=5000 New timing for inter-modal transit terminal - retrieved 22 September 2011
- ^ http://www.guelphtribune.ca/article/232220
- ^ http://guelph.ca/uploads/Transit/2011%20Maps/GuelphTransitRec_Mapside_FINAL.pdf New Routes - retrieved September 22, 2011
- ^ http://guelph.ca/remastered/?p=5044
- ^ Graham, David (2008-01-19). "Landing on a commuter train solution". Guelph Mercury. http://news.guelphmercury.com/article/284174. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
- ^ http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/local/article/641732--guelph-s-first-go-train-late-but-still-a-hit
- ^ Outhit, Jeff (14 November 2010). "GO trains to run from Kitchener to Toronto in 2011". Waterloo Region Record. http://www.therecord.com/news/article/284811--go-trains-to-run-from-kitchener-to-toronto-in-2011. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
- ^ Greyhound Canada Quicklink: Guelph - Toronto
- ^ Greyhound Canada, Table 743
- ^ http://www.aboutown.ca/northlink.php Aboutown
- ^ New GO Transit Express Route: U of G - Toronto
- ^ University of Guelph GO Bus Schedule
- ^ Hwy 407 West GO Bus Service
- ^ Bus routes that service the University
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Guelph railway station |
- Guelph Transit
- GO Transit station page for Guelph Central GO Station
- GO Transit station page for the University of Guelph
- Via Rail station page for Guelph Central GO Station
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