Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 50, 2014

GO Transit is an inter-regional public transit system in Southern Ontario, Canada. It primarily serves the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) conurbation, with operations extending to several communities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. GO carried 65.6 million passengers in 2013, and its ridership continues to grow. The GO network employs diesel trains and coach buses; it connects with other regional transit providers such as the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) and Via Rail. Canada's first such public system, GO Transit began regular passenger service on May 23, 1967, as a part of the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. Since then, it has grown from a single train line to seven, and expanded to include complementing bus service. GO has been constituted in a variety of public-sector configurations, today existing as an operating division of Metrolinx, a provincial crown agency with overall responsibility for integrative transportation planning within the GTHA.