Toronto was just promised a new transit line through the heart of the city

The Ontario PC Party is promising Toronto will get yet another transit line as part of a bid ahead of this month's snap election.

The long-discussed Midtown GO Line could soon become a reality following a Thursday announcement from Ontario PC MPP candidate Prabmeet Sarkaria during a campaign stop in Brampton.

Sarkaria shared that a re-elected Ontario PC government would fund a major regional rail expansion referred to as "GO 2.0," touted as "the next generation of GO passenger train service in the Greater Golden Horseshoe" that would bring three GO Transit lines and 23 new stations to the region.

"GO 2.0 is a transformational project that will ease gridlock and bring millions of people closer to convenient transit in some of our fastest-growing communities," said Sarkaria. 

He framed the planned GO expansion as a major public works project that would help support the province amid economic uncertainty.

"With the threat of President Trump's tariffs continuing to hurt investment and create uncertainty in our province, projects like these that will keep people working and support our economy are more important than ever," Sarkaria said.

A re-elected PC government will support the construction of GO 2.0!

This historic investment will support the creation of:
🔹3 new GO lines
🔹23 new GO stations
🔹100 KMs of new tracks

GO 2.0 will ease gridlock and bring millions of people closer to convenient transit.

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— Prabmeet Sarkaria (@PrabSarkaria) February 6, 2025

The move would see cooperation with the federal government, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Canadian National (CN) to reroute freight rail around Toronto and free up a key rail corridor through some of the region's most densely populated areas for new transit infrastructure.

If re-elected, the Ontario PCs have pledged to build a freight rail bypass along the Highway 407 corridor in Peel Region, rerouting traffic that currently travels along a freight (and former regional rail) corridor through midtown Toronto. 

This change would open a right-of-way through the city that could link up with multiple TTC subway stations and greatly improve connectivity, dovetailing with the PC's campaign promise to cut down gridlock in Toronto.

The midtown GO line would be just one of multiple new routes planned as part of this GO 2.0 project, along with a line from Bolton to Union Station via Woodbridge and Etobicoke, and extensions and improvements to existing routes like the Richmond Hill line.