Ontario Community Newspapers

Whitby Free Press, 14 Dec 1988, p. 16

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WMU~YFBEE PRE£SSWSDNESDAY, DCME 14.,1988, PAGE 17 Herrema: May be paid*paking at GO station By Debbie Luchuk On its first day of regular operations, the Whitby GO train station saw 1,646 commuters use the transit service - a figure that does not include the monthly pass users.1 iher.e is a parking problem. There are no solutions. We're probably going to -go to paid parking, and expan d neixt Boa- son" GO Transit representative for burham, Gary Herrema, told The Free Press. "We have enough land for, another 300 to 400 cars.j Herrema said that the rider- ship is approximately 50 per cent Whitby.residents, with t he rest WJL.i-k~7 +tS11Q*L~Lb * e V ~ .E.K.U.4.UA. L'aie rniipbL., au mioe H adthttetani uh- il iiyL j5Luu lookinq after corporate ridorsliip H adta h rni uh VII.F U > taitcithtstatistics ororty a. have to work with the total number of users includ- Whitby Transit. on setting up By Debbie Luchuk ing monthly pass holders would int fares or similar measures at Trustes of the Durham Board be available.in the new year. 0oW cost to encourage Whitby of Education last week selected usýrs to leave thoir cars at home. Lorna Murphy' a Pickering trus- There. were 1,173 commuters License plate checks will be, tee, to chair t he nowly'inaugura- (not including the monthly pass done to dotermine. if cars parked' ted board. She refflacos Sandra users) who caught the G O train in the station lot belong to the Lawson (Ajax). from A ax. station users Vice chairman is Ian Brown, coming from Oshawa -and parts east. "We have well filled train$. We hoped for more doubling i pon ridership (use of car pools), Plut it is so handv to take a car." Whitby trustee and eigh year veteran of the board. He reç laces Heather Beveridge of Uxbrc ge. Brown and Murphy, aiong. with Beve4dge, formed the nomination committee to poor- dinate committee membershlp. CADLLA *CHEVY TRUCKS CHEVROLET * OLDSMOBILE '777- ---,

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