One lady says it felt like waiting for "carnival ride" #UPExpress pic.twitter.com/x1qWtxBbsg
— Anna Vlachos (@AnnaVlachos) February 14, 2016
It was absolute love as more than 10,000 people crowded the UP Express Saturday for the Valentine’s free weekend service to Pearson airport. The day’s ridership, which Metrolinx guessed was composed of 30 percent travellers and 70 percent curiosity seekers, seemed to prove that people like the idea of a train to the airport but don’t like the fare of $27.50 (one way). Spokesperson Anne Marie Atkins said the service will be launching a new program to encourage ridership soon. That sounds like a decision to reduce prices which would make sense because it represents some revenue as opposed to very little. It is said that the trains normally run at about eight per cent of capacity.
