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I hope this will happen since southwestern Ontario gets kind of screwed on rail, and the distances involved make bus travel really uncomfortable. People don't realize how far away Windsor and Sarnia really are. Worst comes to worst London could get increased Via service and then people can take...

Blair is on the other side of the 401 from Doon and is actually served pretty well relative to its size due to proximity to Conestoga College. I personally think that Conestoga transit is a mess and the Region missed a critical opportunity with its Homer Watson Blvd reconstruction in not adding...

I think the mention of frequency is pretty significant near the end. Services like this should really be daily/weekdays or not at all, or else there's no real chance at building up ridership, and they'll just get killed again in the future.

I don't think seat patterns matter much in the big scheme of things, but I do think there's a legitimate issue. In systems like the London rail lines you see each line having distinctive colour schemes, names, and identities (less sterile than numbering) but you also have unifying...

Thanks for the info, Dan. I'll have to pay them a visit sometime. I think the people running the museum would be smart if they advertised "shuttle days" or something similar where they pick people up in a van from Acton, Guelph (timed around GO trains now that they are actually running at...

My understanding is it's the location of the old maintenance facility for the Toronto Suburban Railway, which ran from Guelph to Toronto roughly parallel to the CN/GTR/Kitchener line tracks. I imagine it was easier and cheaper than a purpose built facility, and probably helped preserve some...

What would be the best way to go about doing this?

I wish they'd roll out some of these station upgrades at Kitchener. Especially now that there are 6-coach trains at midday, a lot of people don't know where to stand and intuitively stand in front of the station building, rather than way down at the east end of the platform where the short...

I don't think we're likely to see official stats until at least the 1 year mark. That said anecdotally the ION did have a number of mysterious delays in the first month or two after launch, but not as many people were taking trains, so it wasn't as noticeable. Transit riders in KW don't have a...

That's certainly planned, and in fact people are already speculating on real estate for where Line 2 (projected for 2040s) is suspected to run. The market here is aggressive and a certain part of me would much rather see redevelopment fall in Cambridge, where most of the built environment has no...

I agree the loops were a bit unfortunate. What I see as a shame in Cambridge is all the road widening planned to preserve car lanes -- within a few decades I think a lot of naive boosters eager to placate suburbanites will find that you just can't have your cake and eat it too, and building...

I'd put my money on this making the city-province agreement official, or SmartTrack/OL-related. Willowbrook seems an odd choice though. Perhaps Lakeshore West improvements?

At least it'll be a consolidation for losing that gorgeous old church, I suppose.

Which one is that?

Yeah, it's really unfortunate because in a bunch of cases all they've done is turn one intersection into two and actually made it more complicated.

If you read the article, the same pressure group is demanding both, which seems rather contradictory. Normally I'd agree but it's the silliness of the situation that amuses me about this case.

Because millions of people have been on them, people have grown up riding them, and for many it was a symbol during pretty dark times that electric street railways can still exist in North America in regular revenue service. They might not have the retro cool factor of PCCs or the modern look of...

Oh no, a transformer! "LRT good, necessary LRT infrastructure bad"

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Not to dispute the possibility of dual-mode, but Metrolinx's map shows a paralleling station, traction power substation, tap site, and switching station for the Guelph Sub. The presence of a switching station, IMO, makes me think they are highly considering piecemeal electrification from...