Pickering GO Station
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| Address | 1322 Bayly Street Pickering, Ontario, Canada L1W 1L8 | |||||||||
| Station code | PIN | |||||||||
| Fare Zone | 91 | |||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | |||||||||
| Platforms | 3 (12-car) | |||||||||
| GO Bus | 41, 90B, 94 | |||||||||
| Local Transit | DRT 101, 103, 112, 118, 121, 211, 900B, 916, 917 | |||||||||
| Ridership (2019) | 1,100,000 | |||||||||
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Pickering GO Station is a GO Transit train station located in Pickering, Ontario, Canada, at 1322 Bayly Street.
The station has three platforms with six tracks. Platform 3, immediately outside the station building is served by one track. Adjacent to it are three tracks on the CN Kingston subdivision, which do not serve any platform and are used by CN freight and VIA trains. North of these tracks is platform 2, followed by two tracks and platform 1. Two tunnels are used to access the platforms; one by the station building and one around 20 metres west in the parking lot by the taxi stand and kiss and ride.
The Pickering Pedestrian Bridge, a 250-meter long enclosed pedestrian bridge that spans Highway 401 provides a pedestrian connection between the station and locations north of it on the other side of Highway 401. Key locations include several office buildings, Pickering City Hall, the Central Branch of the Pickering Public Library, the Shops at Pickering Town Centre shopping mall, one of the station's parking lots, and the Pickering Parkway Terminal.
There are 3,538 parking spaces at this station divided among three lots, and one parking structure. The main lot located at the station site has 585 spaces, with the adjacent parking structure containing 1,673 spaces. The east lot located east of the station on Sandy Beach Road has 780 spaces, and the north lot located on Pickering Parkway has 500 spaces.
History
The station opened in 1967 as part of the original Lakeshore East Line. It served as the terminus station until 1990 when service was extended east towards Oshawa.
The original station building contained a ticket agent and public washrooms. South of the ticket hall is a commercial building connected by a canopy. This building had a convenience store with Durham Region Transit (DRT) ticket sales and a coffee shop/bakery. Demolition of the existing building and construction of a new one began late June 2010. The Kiss and Ride area was modified and a covered walkway was added to connect the west tunnel and bus loop to the new building. The escalators at the west tunnel will be removed. The bus platforms to the west were also reshaped in front of the building. The new building opened in March 2011, within the Spring 2011 target date. During construction, a mobile ticket agency and washroom were provided.
On November 17, 2010, the northern half of the bus loop was closed and bus stops relocated to make room for the construction of the pedestrian bridge that will connect to the Pickering Town Centre area. The bridge project officially broke ground on January 11, 2011 and completed in March 2012. The 250-metre enclosed bridge starts from the DRT bus loop and end at the new office tower across Highway 401. After the opening of the bridge, DRT reorganized their routes, which included moving the terminus of some routes from the south side of the station to the north side, north of Highway 401. A new terminal was created, named Pickering Parkway Terminal.
Starting in fall 2018, the station is used to pilot the Metrolinx Wayfinding Harmonization Project. As a result, all signs and wayfinding information at the station has been updated to follow the Metrolinx Wayfinding Design Standard.
Connecting routes
Buses stop either at the bus loop at the south side of the station or at the Pickering Parkway Terminal, located at the north end of the pedestrian bridge, on Pickering Parkway. As a part of the Metrolinx Wayfinding Harmonization Project, bus bays that are in the bus loop are prefixed with 'A', while bus bays at the Pickering Parkway Terminal are prefixed with 'B'.
- Bay A4: GO 90B eastbound
- Bay A5: Unassigned
- Bay A6: GO 41, 90B westbound
- Bay A7: GO 94
- Bay A8: DRT 101
- Bay A9: Unassigned
- Bay A10: Unassigned
- Bay A11: DRT 121
- Bay B12: DRT 112, 118, 121, 211, 900B, 916
- Bay B13: DRT 917
Gallery
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Station Building
References
- Pickering GO Station — TRAIN & BUS STATION, gotransit.com, retrieved on 2010-08-19
