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Cobourg For the Day - Planning
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6:40 |
7:51 |
9:25 |
10:30 |
19:33 |
18:28 |
22:57 |
21:52 |
I could catch a 6:40 from Toronto (quite late for me!) and be in Cobourg in less than an hour and a quarter. What’s Cobourg got to offer?
Cobourg has a public transit system. The early start is 6:40 and gives me ten hours in town. The late start is 9:25 and gives me eight hours in town. That’s certainly enough time for a light brunch, stroll around town, early supper and home.
The VIA train station is about one kilometre from the lake, 0.8 Km from the downtown core, but the bus system has two routes, both of which passes the train station every half-hour.
Since there are only two routes and the fares are $2.00, even if each of the two routes charges me twice (“out”, and “back”) I can’t spend more than $8.00 on bus fares.
Transit runs Monday to Friday - 6:15 a.m. to 7:45 p.m. so even if I elect to get the later (21:52) train I can spend a couple of hours over supper and wander the downtown core, ending up with a leisurely stroll back to the station.
“Schedules are available on the bus, Victoria Hall, Dressler House and Cobourg Library.”
There is a “Cobourg - Port Hope Shuttle” which arrives every hour at 10 minutes past the hour at Northumberland Mall. You can transfer to a Cobourg bus for $1.00 or ride Port Hope bus to the Hospital – the bus then goes back to Port Hope. That sounds like a diversion for an hour or so.
Since “Port Hope riders can get on the shuttle at Port Hope Town Hall (56 Queen Street) every hour on the hour during business hours” it sounds as if it is just a ten-minute trip to Port Hope, ten minutes back. Enough time to jump off in Port Hope and grab an ice-cream – or spend an hour or so in Port Hope and then return to Cobourg.
As far as I can make out, both routes service both sides (N-S and E-W) of the city. To a first approximation I’d say that Route 1 (pink/red) runs on a SE-NW axis and Route 2 (Green) runs SW-NE.
Both routes seem to service the VIA station.
Port Hope?
What are my options of starting, or ending, my day in Port Hope?
Port Hope is referenced an all pages between 10 and 19 of the little timetable booklet.
The trains that stop in Port Hope pick up on their way into Toronto in the morning, and drop off on their way out of Toronto in the evening. That is, it is a Toronto-commuter service.
Except, strangely, for train 643 on weekends which picks up in Port Hope and drops off in Toronto; there appears to be no train on weekends to go FROM Toronto TO Port Hope!
Toronto needs a big sign: “Abandon Port Hope all ye who enter here”.
Libraries
Cobourg Branch - C. Gordon King Centre
200 Ontario Street, Cobourg, ON K9A 5P4. Our Summer Hours began July 2nd and continue to September 6th
Cobourg branch - Monday to Wednesday 10am - 8pm ;
Thursday to Saturday 10am - 5pm ; Closed on Sundays
Sunday, August 09, 2015
So the day before my travel, the weather forecast says 55% POP and thunderstorms. If my luck holds there will be intermittent showers, times when I will be advised to either stay on the bus I’m on (and switch seats to view town from the other side!) or hunker down in a library or coffee shop.
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