unimaginative2
Senior Member
Looks like GO is preparing to buy the portion of the Lakeshore West corridor in Toronto - there's a tender for a market value estimate on their website for the Yonge St to 29th St segment (almost to Long Branch).
Awesome but odd. Why Long Branch? It's not like any line will terminate there or like CN would be more willing to sell. It's a pretty arbitrary point. Pickering to Burlington makes the most sense because it's the area bypassed by the Halton/York subs. Obviously that's a bigger investment.
I am for transit, but I am against excessively expensive transit "improvements" that will have low ridership even during rush hour. The cost of a GO train to Peterborough (population 74898) could instead fund much higher-priority projects like GO train service to Waterloo region (population 506800) and Niagara Region (population 427421) and frequent all-day service on existing GO lines.
Yeah, but it doesn't work that way. You said yourself that it was a pork motivated project. It's not like the deferral of this project magically means that Flaherty will announce some other project costing the same amount of money that is deemed preferable. I'd obviously benefit a great deal from new train service to Waterloo Region and I'd probably never ride the train to Peterborough. I'd like to see both services built. If Peterborough gets built before Waterloo, that's just the way it goes.
unimaginative, perhaps?
Omigod! You're so clever!
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