COMMUNITY NOTICE

CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY UPDATE: Dufferin Street Bridge Removal

Dear Neighbour,

The City of will be removing the Dufferin Street Bridge (see map on reverse), which spans GO Transit’s Lakeshore West rail corridor, during the weekend of Nov. 30th to Dec. 2nd, 2013. This work is part of a larger City of Toronto-led project that involves replacing the Dufferin Street Gardiner Expressway underpass.

GO Transit currently operates two-way, all-day rail service on the Lakeshore West corridor between and Aldershot GO Station. As a result of the bridge removal, the will be out of service from 2:00a.m. on Saturday Nov. 30th to 2:00am on Monday Dec. 2, 2013. Regular service will resume on Monday Dec. 2nd, at 5:00am.

OPERATIONAL IMPACTS

There will be several operational impacts for GO Transit during this weekend:

 No Lakeshore West trains will be running.  Except for the Hamilton GO Centre, Bus Operations will not operate buses to any Lakeshore West rail stations on this weekend.  All Hamilton (including McMaster) train-meet and train bus trips will be cancelled.

For detailed route cancellations please visit gotransit.com/schedules.

ALTERNATIVE GO TRANSIT OPTIONS

GO Transit has a plan in place to assist with the temporary service disruption of the Lakeshore West train schedule

 Replacement trains will run on the Milton GO Train line. For schedule information please visit gotransit.com/schedules.  QEW Route 16 GO bus service will continue to operate extra capacity as necessary.  Niagara Falls train-meet Route 12 will be diverted to/from Burlington to serve Hamilton GO Centre instead.  Route 21 GO train-bus schedule will deploy additional bus trips as necessary.

We realize that the Dufferin Street bridge removal will be an inconvenience to GO customers and we appreciate your understanding and patience.

416.869.3200 1.888.GET ON GO (438.6646) GOTRANSIT.COM

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DUFFERIN STREET BRIDGE REMOVAL LOCATION

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