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Daisy-Chaining – Planning
My idea for a late-fall (cool, cold but dry) day trip is to attempt to travel from downtown Toronto to Hamilton by Local Public Transit.
I live near College Subway Station, so I think (as a tourist might!) to use the Toronto Transit Commission’s 501 streetcar route along Queen Street. If you are out by the airport you’ll probably travel by a #111, #112 or a Highway 27 “Rocket” or similar to land at Kipling or Islington subway stations and then take a bus to Long Branch (#110 or #123) and join up with me there.
Long Branch loop is a node for Mississauga Transit (“Mi Way”), and the Mississauga #23 will take us from the Long Branch Loop to Clarkson GO Station at Lakeshore Boulevard and Southdown Road).
Oakville Transit routes #4, #21, #25 and #102 connect at Clarkson GO Station, but only #4 is a cross-town; 21, 25 and 102 are local service loops.
Oakville #4 takes us to Oakville GO Station where we can take a #14 to Lakeshore/Burloak, or stay on the #4 to Bronte Go and then transfer to a #21 to Lakeshore/Burloak.
From Lakeshore/Burloak we take a local 20A or 20B to Appleby GO Station and then a #10 or #21 to Burlington GO Station.
From Burlington GO Station a HST #1 or #101 will take us to downtown Hamilton.
If we are gluttons for punishment we will take the HST, again, the #55 to Stoney Creek GO Station.
From |
Via |
To |
Dep |
Arr |
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Toronto Yonge/Queen |
501 Streetcar |
Long Branch Loop |
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Long Branch Loop |
Mississauga 23 |
Clarkson GO Station |
8:15 Get westbound schedule |
8:55 |
Clarkson GO Station |
Oakville 4 |
Oakville GO Station |
9:10 |
9:30 |
Oakville GO Station |
Oakville 4 |
Bronte GO Station |
9:10 |
9:48! |
Oakville GO Station |
Oakville 14 |
Lakeshore & Burloak |
9:40 |
10:18 |
Bronte GO Station |
Oakville 32 |
Lakeshore & Burloak |
10:46! |
11:03 |
Lakeshore & Burloak |
Burlington 20A/20B |
Appleby GO Station |
10:20 |
10:45 |
Appleby GO Station |
Burlington 10 |
Burlington GO Station |
10:50 |
11:22 |
Appleby GO Station |
Burlington 21 |
Burlington GO Station |
11:10 |
11:30 |
Burlington GO Station |
HST 1 |
Hamilton Transit Terminal |
11:40 |
12:13 |
Burlington GO Station |
HST 101 |
Hamilton Transit Terminal |
11:25 |
11:48 |
Hamilton Transit Terminal |
HST 55 |
Stoney Creek GO Station |
11:59 |
12:20 |
Sunday, December 06, 2015
The forecast for the coming week:
Date |
Forecast |
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Monday 7th |
6/10% |
Tuesday 8th |
6/0% |
Wednesday 9th |
8/20% |
Thursday 10th |
8/10% |
Any of these four days looks good, but by Monday the forecast for Wednesday is gloomy.
System |
Phone |
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Mississauga Transit |
905-615-4311 |
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Oakville Transit |
905-815-2020 |
How to get from Mississauga to Burlington GO |
Burlington Transit |
905-639-0550 |
From Oakville catch the 20A/20B to Appleby and just stay on it; it becomes the #10. 1 Plains Road from Burlington GO; 1 or 1X, :40 and :10 |
Burlington Transit |
101 Plains from Burlington GO; :05, :25, :55 |
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HSR |
905-527-4441 |
55 bus to Stoney Creek |
Toronto
I will take the first available street car labelled “Long Branch” and settle in for what I think will be an hours travel across the bottom edge of Toronto.
Mississauga
At the Long Branch loop I will hop aboard a Mississauga Transit #23; from memory these run every ten or fifteen minutes or so and will take me to Clarkson GO station.
Oakville
From Clarkson the Oakville #4 will take me to Bronte GO station at which time I should switch to a #32 to take me to the Lakeshore/Burloak loop.
Or
From Clarkson the Oakville #4 will take me to Oakville GO station at which time I should switch to a #14 to take me to the Lakeshore/Burloak loop.
These bus routes appear to run every 30 minutes.
Burlington
From the Lakeshore/Burloak loop I catch either the the Burlington 20A/20B to the Appleby Go stataion and then either a #10 or a #21 to Burlington GO station.
At Burlington GO station I switch to either a #1 (every half hour at :10 and :40) or a #101 (three times an hour at :05, :25 and :55)
Hamilton
I am undecided about hopping on the HST #55 to go to Stoney Creek, in part because there is nothing to do at the Stoney Creek loop except wait for a GO bus home, and I have no idea of the schedule of the HST#55; if it lands at the loop a meere 5 or 10 minutes before the homeward GO bus I might do it, but I won’t travel to Stoney Creek in order to wait 50+ minutes to get out of there.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Tmorrow is the day; the forecast is fine and warm for November. I checked this morning and there is $13.96 on my Presto Card.
I shall walk down to Queen Street when I am ready, take the 501 Streetcar and top-up my Presto Card at the Long Branch GO Station while I wait for the Mississauga Bus.
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