Wayne Gates, Niagara Falls Riding’s MPP. File photo, Doug Draper
News from the Office of Niagara Falls Riding MPP Wayne Gates
(As of this posting, Wayne Gates gathered with Welland Riding MPP Cindy Forster, Niagara Region’s Chair Gary Burroughs and others this April 24th at a Niagara Falls transit terminal to call on the province to bring daily Go Train services to Niagara.)
Queen’s Park, April, 2014 –Wayne Gates, NDP MPP for the riding of Niagara Falls, Ontario, is calling on the people of the riding to visit his offices in Niagara Falls, Fort Erie and Niagara-on-the Lake to sign an online petition to bring daily GO train service to Niagara.
“I am inviting people in the riding of Niagara Falls to come out to one of my local offices to get on board to bring daily GO train service to Niagara.”
The Niagara Falls MPP said a united Niagara will go a long way to pressure the Wynne government to follow through on its byelection promise to bring daily GO train service to Niagara.
“The Minister of Transportation put the future of GO train to Niagara in doubt after he cited obstacles during Question Period when I was calling for a government commitment to a time-line to bring all day GO train service to Niagara,” Gates said.
“A united Niagara will make sure this government stops making excuses and commit to a date for the delivery of daily GO train service to Niagara,” Gates said.
Gates will be in the riding of Niagara Falls during the Easter long weekend and each day of the following week and invites residents to fill out the following online petition at a local office near them.
You may wish to sign an online petition for expanded Go Transit in Niagara by clicking on http://www.getniagaragoing.ca/?utm_campaign=niagara_week&utm_medium=email&utm_source=getniagaragoing
Constituency offices for Wayne Gates are located at Unit 1A, 6746 Morrison Street Niagara Falls and Douglas Heights Seniors Centre, 265 High Street Fort Erie.
Niagara At Large 
GO service must be extended to the Niagara Region. Again, I question the wisdom of running it along the Lake Ontario shoreline which serves only the north shore of the region. In addition to not serving the region as a whole, it places pressures on an area that has already lost a great deal of its favourable agricultural land to industrial/urban use to again lose additional agricultural lands.
The politicians should consider the route chosen by out ancestors _ the old Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo line. This route may require work to restore it to full usefulness but it would be a link between north and south. If nothing else it would circumvent Minister Bradley’s concern that the freight lines have priority on the present Lake Ontario route.
The mid Peninsula route would attract industry and urban growth not at the expense of the specialized agricultural lands along the shore of Lake Ontario. It would also cause the Niagara Region to focus on developing and promoting local public transit to serve the entire Region not segments of it. It is time politicians began to consider the entire Niagara Peninsula not just the northern portion as is the current case.
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