Bike storage lockers, bike rooms coming to York GO stations, carpool lots

Yorkregionc.om
Sept. 12, 2017
By Adam Martin-Robbins

The provincial government is taking steps to try and encourage more commuters to use pedal power to travel at least a portion of their journey.

To that end, it's spending $2.5 million to install bike storage lockers at 15 commuter parking lots and 28 bike rooms at 26 GO Transit stations over the next four years.

There are two sites in York Region being outfitted with eight "secure" bike storage lockers each - the Go train station at Highway 404 and Greenlane in East Gwillimbury and the carpool lot at Highway 400 and Highway 7 in Vaughan.

They are scheduled to be installed by the end of March 2018.

Bike rooms, designed to increase storage capacity and security, will be built at the GO train stations in Aurora, King City, Markham and Unionville.

The bike rooms at the Markham and Unionville stations are slated to be ready by spring 2018 while the ones in Aurora and King City will be in place between mid-2018 and the end of 2020.

"This investment will make cycling more convenient and appealing, and will encourage more people in Ontario to bike as part of their daily commute," Steven Del Duca, minister of transportation and MPP for Vaughan, said in a news release.