I’d suggest, in pretty strong terms, that you look at what has caused the escalation. This is a more complex, higher grade project than stage 1 with a lot more grade separation… the infrastructure costs of which first and foremost stem from topographic issues that any highway expansion ALSO HAS...

Frankly I think it’s safe to assume this DOES have some plan for CPKC between the prior GO announcements this government has made centering on Milton and the level of frequency Kitchener can get without a bypass. As much as those of us in a forum like this mostly understand how important the...

The other biggie is that the bypass gets us to a place where something short of federal intervention could put electrification of Milton and beyond Bramalea on the table. I actually quite like calling it GO 2.0; the level of transformation if this gets us full electrification of Kitchener and...

Not publicly anyway; this has always been framed as “GO train”, which isn’t all that surprising with the project originating with a pretty explicit presumption that a Milton extension was preferable. I do think we need to take another look at this; the line is quicker, cheaper and easier to...

No, I definitely mean the Guelph Junction Railway*, and I do agree with your point about on-line destinations for the Milton corridor. What I'm highlighting is that Guelph is a (slightly) larger market than Cambridge in isolation, and offers good connectivity (geographic potential for...

The more I look at it, the more I really don't like that option with GJR available. I really can't think of any thing that Cambridge via the Galt Sub does better than Guelph via GJR OTHER than creating a single seat ride from the less than ideal Cambridge station of choice to Union.

I get the sense that there is a real fear of getting entangled in inter municipal transit operations between this and the total lack of any kind of service between Waterloo and Guelph or Brantford. On that Guelph Central operations note, I am inclined to agree that the cost of an additional...

I really, really DON'T want to see this. It's a path to compromising both services deeply and effectively killing the local Cambridge - Guelph traffic that really ought to be a big chunk of this things viability while ending any real possibility of getting the line to Galt.

My hope is still really for the Region to take the lead on this thing. As a regional project even buying the corridor for protection and freight service preservation follows the model of the Waterloo Spur and would have some nice synergy with Guelph Junction, while yeah, if it MUST be metrolinx...

If you HAD to compare to London, and really I agree that it’s not an ideal comparison in the first place, the OL is probably more similar to a combination of the Victoria Line and Jubilee extension

Repeated sales attempts aside are there ANY examples of line of haul gondolas with multiple stations that aren't dealing with terrain issues? ANYWHERE?

It seems to me like the really key thing is that the closure of the whole laundry list of GA facilities, and quite possibly Billy Bishop (I've never seen its existence as especially harmful, and would be more inclined to close it in connection to HSR than Pickering - really I think that a single...

In all seriousness, it won't do anything of the sort. I'm almost certain that the cost differential between double or single ending an automated vehicle is going to be greater than for a conventional given you will need the full sensor suite at both ends. And in any case, the real argument from...

That Dorval option is exactly what I’m describing, but instead of terminating or back tracking around the mountain continue them to Ottawa for a frequency boost between Ottawa and Dorva (although that does open the question of whether the recommended transfer point for through QC passengers...

My hope on that front is that we solve the Montreal problem by bringing Toronto - Montreal trains to Central but Quebec - Montreal - Ottawa (Fallowfield?) trains can bypass the core using Dorval and Correspondance A40 (seriously?!? That’s ACTUALLY going to be the name?!?) on a schedule staggered...

In all seriousness? Almost certainly.

If the Transitway has actually become something related to the Ontario Line running from Unionville to Renforth there's really not much difference from ALRT except the 40 years... But no, I don't think there's much doubt of how much we lost by cancelling ALRT.

And then that stupid article leading with a line about being unable to question safety calls; it got my back up faster than just about anything else I’ve seen recently, and frankly I’ve seen that attitude way to often lately. “Someone claims this is a safety issue so we HAVE to do it, what do...

Why not both? But yeah, I’m quite sure this is nonsense of the variety far too common in railfan circles… someone mentions a foundation crack and suddenly everyone starts hearing complete demolition is the only fix. I mean seriously, has any tunnel project, anywhere in the world, had that kind...

The thing that would really bring proper frequency on RH into play in my mind would be building a link to the Barrie line north of Bloomington and extending the Richmond Hill trains to Newmarket…. There’s a couple of quite reasonable alignments and I suspect it would do everything subway...