News Release From GO Transit

Hamilton-Toronto QEW buses will use our new Union Station Bus Terminal, beginning August 31

Starting Saturday, August 31, our Hamilton QEW express buses will be the first to use the new GO Bus terminal we’re building right across from Union Station on the east side of Bay St. Over the coming months, all of our Union Station buses will also move to the new terminal.

All departure times from the Hamilton GO Centre will stay the same. The departure times we use now for Toronto’s Elizabeth St. terminal will become the departure times from the new Union Station Bus Terminal. All arrival times will be five minutes earlier because the travel time is less.

Wheelchair-accessible service will continue to be available.

Buses from Hamilton will exit the Gardiner Expressway at York Street, go east on Lakeshore Boulevard, then north on Bay Street and into the new terminal, just south of Front Street.

Buses from Toronto will leave the terminal via Yonge Street, travelling south to join the Gardiner. We will not be making other stops in Toronto besides the terminal.

Please be safe when walking to and from the terminal. Eventually the terminal will have access by stairs and elevator to Union Station’s platform 1 (once there, you can get down to the GO concourse, then on to the TTC area). Until that’s ready, please cross Bay Street safely at the stoplight at Front Street.

When the terminal’s construction is completed, you will also have an enclosed waiting room, an outdoor covered waiting area, washrooms, and ticket sales. In the meantime please use the facilities and ticket booths inside Union Station.

We’re looking forward to our new terminal, which will bring all of the downtown train and bus services together in one location. Over the next few months, thousands of riders will move from sidewalk stops on Front Street into a proper GO facility.

We do apologize to those passengers who will be disrupted. Please contact TTC at 416 393-4636 (INFO) or visit www.ttc.ca for information about their University or Yonge subways, or their Bay Street bus service.

New late night trip from Hamilton

Also starting Saturday, August 31, a new bus trip to Toronto will leave the Hamilton GO Centre at 11:30 p.m. This trip will run Monday through Saturday.