GO rider to present her case to the board
Well, it’s the end of the long journey as we know it – well almost. After securing nearly 10,000+ petitions, Patricia Eales, the frustrated GO rider who spearheading the petition demanding that GO Transit should get partial refunds, an improved customer notification system and providing extra trains to different routes – is not impressed on the decision that GO has to make – raising fares starting this Saturday. In an interview, Eales state that: “People no longer have any confidence in the so-called GO Train schedule. Trains are regularly late or it is no show GO. Enough is enough.”
According to figures that GO has recently released, there was a 12 per cent increase of trains running on time in January 2008, from the last increase of 77 per cent. However, Eales’ goal is to have trains run on time – 90 to 95 percent of the time. However, it depends on GO decision.
As for the rebate, it’s been nulled. If you people want to raise your voice, then please head over to this link: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/go_on_time/
To close off this blog, I’m leaving you a music video from my favourite band, The Used. It’s called, the “Taste of Ink”. That’s what you get when you sign that GO Transit petition.
The Used – “Taste of Ink” :
References:
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/346055
http://680news.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20080312_092421_7684
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_20581.aspx
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_20592.aspx
http://torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2008/03/14/5001011-sun.html
