Mount Pleasant GO Station is a

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railway station

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. On the

Kitchener line Kitchener is one of the seven train lines of the GO Transit system in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. It extends westward from Union Station in Toronto to Kitchener, though most trains originate and terminate in Brampton in off-peak h ...

, it serves the Mount Pleasant district of Brampton. It is located at Bovaird Drive and Ashby Field Drive. As of September 2015, it is the western terminus for most off-peak Kitchener line train services.

History

The station was completed on March 15, 2006, but it opened for service on February 7, 2005 while still under construction because GO Transit needed to alleviate parking shortages at Brampton GO Station, and also needed to serve the nearby community. Mount Pleasant is wheelchair-accessible with a mini-platform. The parking lot has 1486 spaces and sufficient land to permit future expansion to about 2000 spaces. The station has a nine-bay bus loop serving both GO buses and

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on the south side. On the north side, the station had 4 additional bays to service Brampton Transit busses for the new developments in the area.

Bus routes

Bus bay assignments - North Side

* 1 - Brampton Transit Routes: 26 Mount Pleasant * 2 - Brampton Transit Route: 6 James Potter * 3 - Brampton Transit Route: 23 Sandalwood * 4 - Brampton Transit Route: 27 Robert Parkinson & 28 Wanless

Bus bay assignments - South Side

* 5 - Brampton Transit Routes: 55 Elbern Markell & 60 Mississauga Road * 6 - Brampton Transit Route: 9 Vodden * 7 - Brampton Transit Route: 29/29A Williams * 8 - Brampton Transit Route: 4/4A Chinguacousy & 104 Chinguacousy Express * 9 - GO Transit Routes: 31-A,B,E,F, 33-D,E Eastbound * 10 - GO Transit Routes: 31-A,E,F, 33-D,E,F Westbound * 11 - Brampton Transit Routes: 5/5A Bovaird, 505 Züm Bovaird * 12 - Brampton Transit Routes: 1 Queen, 561 Züm Queen West

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mount Pleasant Go Station GO Transit railway stations Railway stations in Brampton Railway stations in Canada opened in 2005 2005 establishments in Ontario