There would only be one station, though with two distinct areas - one for VIA and one for Amtrak. “Amtrak” and “VIA” refer to the different trains, not different stations…

Chicago timings are of course in Central Time, so 5.5 hours both ways. The plan is to have the Amtrak train terminate/originate at a new border processing terminal at the existing VIA station in Windsor (Walkerville).

Transport Action Canada quoted some schedule, which showed that eastbound passenger delayed by Canadian border processing would have a later train (Train 78) to catch to Toronto, whereas westbound passengers getting delayed by American border processing would miss the last train from Detroit to...

Daily commuter rail service got chopped during the January 1990 cuts, the Atlantic stopped operating on December 16, 1994 (with its three frequencies per week transfered to the Ocean, thus doubling the latter’s frequency from 3 to 6 tpw)…

The most striking exception being last year when they slapped their speed limits on VIA right before the Thanksgiving weekend…

By raising these speed restrictions and thus limiting their negative impact on travel time. Which is exactly what VIA managed to do a few weeks ago and has drastically reduced the severity of the problem…

May I ask you which schedules were extended to account for the increased travel times resulting from the speed restrictions imposed by CN on the Venture fleet? I somehow struggle to identify any such changes…

At some point, the plan was to have Alto share tracks with the Stouffville line until it intersects with the Belleville Sub, but I’m not sure what the most recent plans are… Correct. Duplication is the most important way to achieve resilience.

If you want to be seen like a reliable trade partner and ally, you unfortunately need to act like one.

Sure, but it‘s legally difficult for any market economy which has comitted to trade agreements like CETA and whatever remains of NAFTA by now to guarantee a certain supplier a sufficient volume of contracts…

Sure, you can do anything provided that you can help Metrolinx find the necessary billions to relocate dozens of stations for whatever apparently very important reasons…

Because the multimodal facilities which unlock these „improved network effects“ already exist at the existing GO rail stations and moving rail stations to a different location just escalates the price tag of GO Expansion for rather small incremental benefits…?

More like: Upgrade a rail corridor to GO Expansion standards Watch land value rise around the stations served along these improved corridors Sell the lands with the giant GO parking lots to developers, so that they can convert these car parks to transit-oriented developments Use the proceeds of...

Sure, but selling the giant car parks to developpers for conversion to TODs will generate much more funds for further transit expansions once GO Expansion has reach that station. It therefore makes sense to hold on to this admittedly car-centric land use for now…

There is a good reason why the number of people responding to this sad spammer is constantly dwindling. The “Ignore” function really helps preserving your mental health…

Just speculating here, but the two factors usually consuming capacity are: Heterogeneity of average speed between different speed types. Stopping at stations which require the use of a certain track. Whereas I do see why skipping stops at stations like Cornwall and Brockville would reduce...

Haven‘t seen any other confirmation yet, but really not impressed, if true: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/message/102172

Dan‘s link has the answer to this particular concern expressed by @reaperexpress, even if it of course doesn’t sufficiently address any of his other very valid concerns: PS: @reaperexpress, the 18:48 schedule you show for 668 only seems to be valid on September 28. The schedule seems to...

Thanks! I made that timetable archive and database so that nobody else has to collect and dive through these timetables to make any such timetable analyses. As always, anyone interested in using that database can just let me know and I’ll create a sharable copy! There are not really any...

Indeed, the number of Toronto-Ottawa slots is capped at the 10 trains per direction and day VIA operated pre-Covid and with the reactivation of trains 42 and 55 as of originally announced for next Monday but now postponed until at least March 2026, VIA is might soon be hitting that limit once...