Bronte GO Station is a

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in the

GO Transit GO Transit is a regional public transit system serving the Greater Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada. With its hub at Union Station in Toronto, GO Transit's green-and-white trains and buses serve a population of more than seven millio ...

network located in Oakville,

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, Canada. It is a stop on the

Lakeshore West line Lakeshore West is one of the seven train lines of the GO Transit system in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. It extends from Union Station in Toronto to Hamilton, with occasional trips extending to St. Catharines and Niagara Falls. Hi ...

and there is an adjacent bus loop for connecting local

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bus routes. In September 2008 the station parking lot was expanded with a new entrance on Wyecroft Road. In January 2011, approximately 175 spaces were made available in the south lot which can be entered from Speers Road. When the project is completed the south lot will provide 300 parking spaces, with stairs and ramps to the platforms. A Bronte Station Master Plan was completed in 2013, with key recommendations to be coordinated with ongoing improvements. This included considering extending the east tunnel to the south side of the tracks to a relocated bus loop or improve existing west tunnel connections to the existing loop and add more bus bays. Improvements already started, and was completed by Spring 2016, which included repaving the south parking lot and the addition of 200 new spaces as well as upgrades to platform canopies and shelters.

History

The first Bronte railway station was built around 1900 by the

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, on the south side of the tracks just east of Bronte Road, about 1.5 kilometres west of the current site. GO Transit began operating the Lakeshore line on May 23, 1967, providing only rush hour service beyond Oakville. When the GO Station was relocated, in November 1967, it had been given the name ''Oakville West'' to distinguish it from the original station. Subsequently, the historic name was restored for the community of Bronte where the station is located, in the west end of Oakville.

Connecting bus routes

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: *3/3A Third Line *4 Speers-Cornwall *6 Upper Middle *10 West Industrial (Peak Service only) *13 Westoak Trails *18 Glen Abbey South *28 Glen Abbey North *33 Palermo (Peak Service only) *34 Pine Glen (Peak Service only)

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{{Oakville, Ontario GO Transit railway stations Buildings and structures in Oakville, Ontario Rail transport in Oakville, Ontario Year of establishment missing Railway stations in the Regional Municipality of Halton