Bronte GO Station explained

Bronte
Style:GO Transit
Address:2104 Wyecroft Road
Oakville, Ontario
Country:Canada
Structure:Station building
Platform:1 side and 1 island platform
Tracks:3
Bus Stands:8
Bus Operators: Oakville Transit
Parking:2,424 spaces
Bicycle:Racks and shelters
Accessible:yes
Owned:Metrolinx
Zone:14
Former:Oakville West (1967–1995)
Other Services Header:Former services at CN station
Other Services Collapsible:yes

Bronte GO Station is a train station in the GO Transit network located in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore West line and there is an adjacent bus loop for connecting local Oakville Transit bus routes.

In September 2008 the station parking lot was expanded[1] with a new entrance on Wyecroft Road. In January 2011, approximately 175 spaces were made available in the south lot which can be entered from Speers Road. When the project is completed the south lot will provide 300 parking spaces, with stairs and ramps to the platforms.[2]

A Bronte Station Master Plan was completed in 2013, with key recommendations to be coordinated with ongoing improvements.[3] This included considering extending the east tunnel to the south side of the tracks to a relocated bus loop or improve existing west tunnel connections to the existing loop and add more bus bays.[4] Improvements already started, and was completed by Spring 2016, which included repaving the south parking lot and the addition of 200 new spaces as well as upgrades to platform canopies and shelters.[5]

History

The first Bronte railway station was built around 1900 by the Grand Trunk Railway,[6] [7] on the south side of the tracks just east of Bronte Road, about 1.5 kilometres west of the current site.[8]

GO Transit began operating the Lakeshore line on May 23, 1967, providing only rush hour service beyond Oakville. When the GO Station was relocated, in November 1967, it had been given the name Oakville West to distinguish it from the original station.[9] [10] Subsequently, the historic name was restored for the community of Bronte where the station is located, in the west end of Oakville.

Connecting bus routes

Oakville Transit

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bronte Go Station gets more parking . September 13, 2008 . Metroland Media Group . InsideHalton.com . February 23, 2019 .
  2. Web site: More parking at Bronte GO Station . Robert Mackenzie . January 15, 2011 . Transit Toronto . September 29, 2011.
  3. Web site: Policy, Planning and Innovation Q3 Board Report – Sept to Dec 2013 . Leslie Woo Vice President, Policy Planning and Innovation . Metrolinx . Bronte Station: Master Plan completed in Fall 2013; key recommendations will be coordinated with ongoing station improvements. . November 12, 2014.
  4. Web site: GO Transit Rail Parking and Station Access Plan . Steer Davies Gleave, consultants . June 2013 . Metrolinx . November 12, 2014.
  5. Web site: Two hundred new parking spaces coming to Bronte GO Station . Michael Gregory . Nov 12, 2014 . Oakville Beaver . November 12, 2014.
  6. Web site: Middle Div. Stations by District, P168 to Bronte . GTR Buildings & Bridges Inventory 1907 . Charles Cooper's Railway Pages . November 12, 2014.
  7. Web site: Grand Trunk Railway - Toronto and Hamilton. Niagara Rails . Mile 13.33 Bronte station . March 20, 2014.
  8. Web site: Expansion, and the GO ALRT Question . Daniel Garcia and James Bow . GO Transit's Lakeshore Line . Transit Toronto . Bronte Station was replaced by a new station a kilometre and a half to the east, named Oakville West . November 10, 2014.
  9. Web site: Oakville Transit 883 at Bronte GO Station . Michael Taylor . August 29, 2009 . The station was formerly called Oakville West and it is reflected in the old destination screen. . November 10, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180402035440/http://www.michaeltaylor.ca/bus/oakville/883-tour-h.html . April 2, 2018 . dead .
  10. Web site: Garcia . Daniel . Bow . James . GO Transit's Lakeshore Line . transittoronto.ca . 25 May 2023 . July 29, 2021.