@superelevation This is what Otrain is being built to do. Line 3 and line 1 will be branched in the suburbs and will converge in the center. I'm not exactly sure how that negates my main point which is that running a low floor tram as a metro in Canada is new

So kitchener-guelph takes about 17 minutes on the go train, which means it takes ~34+4 minutes for a round trip (extra 4 minutes for getting off) It should be possible to have maybe an hourly 3 car train go kitchener-guelph round trip at off peak- weekend times. Such a service would be...

I have a theory that one of the reasons that never had the right footing is thata lot of initial routes were in less densely populated parts of Atlantic Canada, rather than adding commuter like service in southern Ontario, ex why weren't Toronto-London-St thomas or Hamilton-St Catherine-Welland...

There is a rumor in a discord server that GO did a 'secret' study pre pandemic on proper London GO service long before the current GO expansion (ie all day). the cost was somewhere in the 100 millions. Not sure how reliable the source is but it suggests that there is something in the works.

Unironically, A better value proposition than to built the Eglinton East as is would be to extend the Sheppard subway to UTSC in the next subway expansion, and keep the bus lanes until a proper cheap grade separate solution can be built

An aside: why are some of the choices for stations in southern ontario so ransom for via. Ingersoll with a population of 12.7K gets a station , but tourist destination Paris (12.4 K population ) doesn't have one. New hamburg is another large town with no station. why does Wyoming get a stop...

Running a high floor 'tram' vehicle like a metro isn't new as this is what stadtbahns do. However running a low floor tram as a metro (in Canada) is new. I'd shift the blame on the O train's performance more on poor maintenance/weather but that is another story . .