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By transit in Oakville (Ontario)
By transit in Oakville (Ontario)
Transit services into Oakville centre on the Oakville train station, which serves both GO Transit and VIA Rail. The station's address is 214 Cross Avenue and it is just off Trafalgar Road. It is about 1.5 km north of downtown Oakville; to get downtown, walk south on Trafalgar Road or take bus 14 south.
Oakville lies on GO Transit's Lakeshore West commuter train line. The Lakeshore West line runs from Union Station in downtown Toronto to Aldershot (north of Hamilton), with rush hour trains continuing to downtown Hamilton. This is GO's most frequent service with peak hour trains running up to every 15 minutes, outside of rush hour trains run between every hour and every half-hour; on weekends and holidays, trains run every hour all day. The first train leaves for Toronto at 5:30am on weekdays and 7:30am on weekends and holidays and the last train arrives from Toronto at 1:19am on weekdays and weekends. The trip from Toronto takes between 25 and 40 minutes and costs $6.00 one-way.
GO Transit also operates two bus services from Oakville train station. The 407 West bus has services from Oakville to Square One in Mississauga, Bramalea in Brampton and York University at the northern edge of Toronto, within Oakville, this bus also stops at Sheridan College; the 407 West bus runs every half-hour all day. The 403 bus runs from Oakville to Square One, Yorkdale subway station on the University-Spadina subway line and Finch subway station on the Yonge subway line in Toronto. The 403 bus runs into Toronto during morning rush hour and to Oakville during afternoon rush hour.
Oakville station lies on Via Rail's Quebec City-Windsor corridor. Two train lines serve Oakville: the Toronto-Windsor line, with 5 round trips everyday, serving Aldershot, Brantford and London (one of these round trips stops/begins at London); and the Toronto-Niagara Falls line, with 3 trips a day to Toronto and 2 trips a day to Niagara Falls, serving Aldershot and St. Catharines, one train a day in each direction begins/ends in New York City, also serving Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany.
Coach Canada operates one round-trip coach service per day from Oakville to Niagara Falls. Coaches stop at the Holiday Inn at 590 Argus Road, just off the QEW.
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