Beginnings of GO Transit

The year was 1964, and commuting began to take its toll on the townsfolk of Port Credit, Lorne Park, and Clarkson (now all Mississauga). The municipalities asked the provincial government to launch a study, looking at commuter transportation services. The Government of Ontario Transit, dubbed "GO-Transit" for short, was launched in 1967 as a result. The country's first made-to-order commuter service, it initially ran from Hamilton in the west to Pickering in the east, on CN lines initially laid by the Toronto Hamilton Railway in the 1860s. In 1973, the trains would finally arrive in Brampton, as the premier promised.