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Last week, Toronto’s GO Transit raised fares 15 cents because of inflation and rising fuel costs, and to help fund ongoing service improvements.

This year, the agency plans to refurbish and purchase bi-level passenger cars; add locomotives; install platform stairs and elevators, and replace track, signal systems and a platform roof at Union Station; and install changeable message signs at some stations.

The agency also will rebuild and increase parking at several stations; build train storage facilities at Hamilton Centre and Richmond Hill Station; improve grade crossing safety; construct rail underpasses north of York University Station, south of Unionville Station and north or Bloor Station; construct a pedestrian walkway between Oriole Station platforms and Toronto Transit Commission’s Sheppard subway; and install new track between Hamilton and Burlington, Oakville and Port Credit, and Don River, Scarborough, and Eglinton.