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q- WHITBY'S NEW GO Station is begrnning to take shape and officiais say the station and the GO line should be ready for use by December.' Free Press photo' GO construction on sehedule GOTransit is aiming for a Dec. 1, 1988 opening of the new GO lime and station in Whitby. srWe will be opening the whole lime through ail at once," says >Paul Johannsson, manager of special projects for GO. GO began construction of the Pickering-Whitby lime with a station in Ajax last year. According to Johannsson, the project should be completed at $2 to $3 million less than the $100 million budgeted for the extension. IHe says work on the station should be completed by August but not without its problems. It could have been done by >June but one of the problems the contractor bas been having is high ground water," says Johaninsson. He says it creates a .problem with Iaying concrete. Johannsson says parts of the line stili have te be welded then a IY final levelling of the track bas te be done. But both the lime and the station will be completed in September. "Then we have to test the signaling," he says. It wiIl involve running trains along the track. "Commuters will see trains running up and down the track for a good month and a haif." When the station is completed, it will be used as a bus station. According to Johannsson, r ticket prices have not yet been established. But he says it "won't be much different" than the cost to take the GO bus from Wihitby then transfering at Pickering for a ride te Union Station. The cost of that trip is currently $3.90 one way. He says no ceremony bas been finalized for the opening but he expects officiais will be taken for a ride along the new lime. GO Transit has also proposed te discontinue the bus route aiong Hwy. 401 connecting GO bus stations at Oshawa, Whitby and Ajax te Pickering. The route will be cancelled when the Wihitby station opens. GO bas added a bus route on Lear frein the besau Education through Martial Arts. Parents cal): 666-2878 I lit WIIY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAYe MARCH 9,19M8,PGE3 Materials stolen ,from construction, site 'OPIEDJ&SIZI-FARA SPRING INTO SHAPE FOR LESS THAN $10 A MONTH*. (*LIMITED OFFER)