Cooksville GO Station

Cooksville
New station building completed in 2020
General information
Location	3210 Hurontario Street Mississauga, Ontario Canada
Coordinates	43°34′59″N 79°37′25″W
Owned by	Metrolinx
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Connections	MiWay Hurontario LRT (Future)
Construction
Structure type	Brick station building
Parking	1,458 spaces
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	GO Transit: CO
Fare zone	11
History
Opened	October 27, 1981 (1981-10-27)
Rebuilt	2018–2020
Services
Preceding station GO Transit Following station Erindale towards Milton Milton Dixie towards Union Station
Future services
Preceding station Metrolinx Following station Fairview toward Brampton Gateway Hurontario LRT Dundas & Hurontario toward Port Credit

Original station building

Cooksville GO Station is a GO Transit train and bus station the Milton line in the community of Cooksville in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is located at 3210 Hurontario Street, near Dundas and Hurontario Streets. The future Hurontario LRT will connect to this station.^[1]

Description

Like most GO stations, Cooksville has parking for commuters and a station building with a ticket sales agent and a waiting room. It is located near several condominium complexes, which provides ridership on the Milton Line. The 1400-space parking lot allows access to those who live closer to Mississauga City Centre to use the station.

The GO Station is served by seven trains inbound to Union Station in the morning rush hour and seven trains outbound to Milton during the evening rush hour. There is also the Train-Bus during off-peak hours.

Despite growing ridership on the Milton line, GO cannot schedule additional trains because of the busy Canadian Pacific Kansas City freight services running on the same tracks.^[2] Trains were extended from ten to twelve carriages in a phased roll-out between April 8, 2008^[3] and May 2, 2008 in order to increase capacity, and congestion is alleviated somewhat by the extensive train-bus services outside of rush periods.

On October 13, 2008 the Canadian Pacific Spirit Train stopped at Cooksville GO station to promote the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.^[4]

Repairs to the platforms and pedestrian tunnels began in October 2014 and was completed by the spring of 2015.^[5]

Reconstruction

Demolition of the original Cooksville GO station building and portions of the parking lot began in 2018 in preparation for the construction of new station structures. The new station includes a multi-level parking structure, improved pedestrian access, and a connection to the under-construction Hurontario LRT.^[6] Construction was completed on November 10, 2020,^[7] at a cost of $128.4 million.^[8]

Connecting buses

MiWay

^[9]

• 2 Hurontario
• 4 North Service Road
• 28 Confederation
• 38 Creditview
• 53 Kennedy
• 103 Hurontario Express

GO Transit

• 21 Milton/Toronto^[10]

References

1. Artuso, Antonella (April 21, 2015). "New LRT will connect Mississauga and Brampton". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
2. Garcia, Daniel; Bow, James (2010-08-29). "GO Transit's Milton line". Archived from the original on 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
3. "UofGuelph to Cooksville GO Train users: Milton line now has 12 car trains starting today". GOKW.org. 2008-04-08. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012.
4. Bruce, Debbie (October 14, 2008). "Spirit Train brings Olympic message to town". The Mississauga News. Archived from the original on March 6, 2012.
5. "Modernizing Stations – Cooksville GO Station". GO Transit. Archived from the original on June 27, 2015.
6. "Cooksville GO Station construction alert". GO Transit. Metrolinx. Archived from the original on March 1, 2018.
7. Pecar, Steve (November 10, 2020). "More parking, pedestrian tunnels, part of completion of Mississauga's Cooksville GO Station". insauga.com. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
8. Callan, Isaac (8 February 2021). "The 'Missing Link' would deliver subway-style train service in Mississauga, so why won't Queen's Park or Ottawa step up?". MSN. The Canadian Press. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
9. Cooksville GO Station
10. "Full schedules" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-04-11. Retrieved 2021-04-27.

External links

Media related to Cooksville GO Station at Wikimedia Commons

• GO Transit station page for Cooksville GO Station