Y’know… as far as Christmas trains go… Allandale Waterfront over to some kind of Christmas village arrangement at Collingwood would be pretty nice.

Ugh, looks like every agenda update breaks links. https://pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=ff159491-f8d6-4200-9aa6-cd7faf487096&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English&Item=29&Tab=attachments should work for the moment

I'll add that it's also one of the real bits of strangeness in ROPA 6 after the minister got his claws into it. The Regional Intensification Corridors as the Region talked about them were in more places and looked more like the Stage 3 concepts that have popped up before.

Documents are available now: Stage 2 ION South Terminus Evaluation Results and Preferred Location Map of Preferred South Terminal Location Map of South Terminal Alternative Locations Terminal Location Alternatives Evaluation Criteria Terminal Location Evaluation Results Presentation They're...

Those grade separations also leave stage 2 as quite a lot higher grade a piece of infrastructure than 1... to the point that I have to agree about stage 1 that we may well at some stage be talking about substantial projects to speed run times through Kitchener (the problem is that every...

Yeah... that's not at all how this works. There is going to be a recommendation, singular in the report and a vote by council to do something, not some wide open balloting process on a by option basis.

No, the Milton terminating (as opposed to the Cambridge/Guelph) trains

As in if the Midtown corridor happens, yes, I'd be inclined (in this configuration) to service it by redirecting the Milton trains to Scarborough via Midtown rather than introduce an additional service. The only riders it would seem to really significantly hurt are those boarding between Milton...

Aside from my note about preferring Guelph to Cambridge, I’d observe again that given the corridor limitation OBR has north of Brampton there’s a lot to be said for a new ROW from Bolton to Orangeville instead of rebuilding OBR as it was. I’d also suggest that the trains out to Cambridge or...

The more I look at Cambridge the fonder I get of extending Milton up the GJR with a riverfront station in Guelph. Especially in combination with a Fergus route to Cambridge I really have a hard time justifying Milton - Cambridge over it.

What benefit is there to standard gauge? I get the desire to reduce interlining, I’d even get making it high floor if it’s REALLY meant to be a rapid transit line…. But being both light rail in that area and incompatible with the surface system just seems like a bad idea. Honestly, with the OL...

I agree at the end of the day a bypass is absolutely required, but without getting some degree of acceptance of electrfication we're back to stupid edge cases, like electrification never reaching Hamilton and the Durham extensions remaining diesel.

Frankly I didn't even touch on VIA except to point out how I'd deal with capacity constraints at Bayview, but I think my ideal is Toronto - Brantford - London - Windsor/Detroit HFR, Toronto - Hamilton - St Catharines - Welland - Buffalo trains on a pretty low frequency and only maybe something...

Not much with 413 in the works. If 413 end up stopped and then gets revived There's probably probably a discussion to be had about pulling it's eastern end north, but honestly, demand being what it is, development where it is and the need for a new corridor east of the 404 as low as it is...

Honestly, I think there's going to have to be some element of legislative compulsion, and some kind of subsidy for joint operation areas.

Also significant that the Waterloo Spur ops actually de energize the overhead while CN is active. We really do need to find a way to make the Class 1s live with electrification but there’s going to be more to it than getting aggressive in negotiations.

I am honestly starting to think that with VIA and GO both behaving the way they do the most realistic shot at service that will really serve the corridor well would be giving VIA the boot and Waterloo Region taking the lead on a dual function London - Guelph regional service that also runs a...

I'd love to know the leap of cop-brain that says throwing a streetcar operator into a holding pen thrown together in a film studio warehouse somehow 'makes sense' on the basis of a purported threat to the safety of the streetcar. Frankly the absolute best one sentence summary of the G20 was the...

I've talked about pieces of this in various threads, but I threw together a sketch of my thoughts on the far western GTA and Grand River Valley. Aside from my interest in the area it's also what I'd consider an appropriate alternative use for Highway 413 funds, as well as a good mix of projects...

I brought up the g20 in reference to a vague recollection that TTC management told their people who got arrested during G20 that it was their problem despite having literally been arrested for doing their jobs. And the two I was talking about were separate from the off duty guy who got caught...