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Yeah, and Kitchener's station is <5 minute walk from Thalmic.
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44 minute ride from Brampton station and a 5-minute walk? That's pretty sweet for some people!Yeah, and Kitchener's station is <5 minute walk from Thalmic.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitch...t-a-real-solution-says-stephen-lake-1.3324308
Thalmic CEO seems to want to hire or retain more people who live in Toronto (as do other Waterloo tech companies I'd assume).
Is it even viable though? Say they cut commute time to 1.5 hour from Union. That plus the amount of time to get to the train station is still a really long commute.
With several growing tech companies getting to the > 100 employee mark in downtown Toronto, I'd think the talent that lives here would always choose a Toronto based job over a long commute to KW.
Speaking of Toronto tech offices near Spadina (the article above), start-up open house happened recently and some offices are breathtakingly beautiful. One recently IPO'd Canadian tech company in particular..
Is it even viable though? Say they cut commute time to 1.5 hour from Union. That plus the amount of time to get to the train station is still a really long commute.
This could be possible with high speed GO trains.The max I'd commute is 45-60 mins. Which I would imagine is difficult the further out you get from Union station.
Any updates on better scheduled train service Union to Kitchener? Surely now that Google is open in Kitchener there must be pressure to better connect Toronto to KW?
I travel to Baden several times a month, and it would be great to grab a 6:30am train, arrive at Kitchener by 7:45, then Uber to Baden. So.... much better than the 401. Sometimes it's taking me 2.5 hours to get home.
I agree it's years away, but it's not such a massive project. VIA already has the trains, track and stations. The project would thus entail installing double tracks between Oakville and London (needed in order to clear CN freight train traffic). AIUI, that's all that's needed.We're talking years, and more years, before we will see that. I hope it happens, it is already overdue - but so far it's all promises and sweet-nothing in the way of shovels in the ground.
Any updates on better scheduled train service Union to Kitchener? Surely now that Google is open in Kitchener there must be pressure to better connect Toronto to KW?
How does that impact service to KW?I agree it's years away, but it's not such a massive project. VIA already has the trains, track and stations. The project would thus entail installing double tracks between Oakville and London (needed in order to clear CN freight train traffic).