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agree with Kevin, - There has been a lot of discussion on Waterloo Region Connected (sister site of UT) about why ion is slow and the main reason agreed upon was (rather than the number of 90deg turns being the primary cause of slowness) the slow operation. Even in 70 km/h zones , drivers don't...

HUGE development in Kitchener: beside Mill LRT Station - photos from Waterloo Region Connected by "ac3r" Building heights: 11, 14, 21, 27, 29 and 32 floors 1500 residential units 2013 square meters - commercial space 1300 bicycle spaces

Prominent UW professor Brian Doucet raised frustrations about lack of kitchener-guelph, guelph-hamilton and kitchener - hamilton GO connections. This has been echoed by many others the region as well as transit enthusiast Reece Martin. I am all for @Urban Sky 's thinking that intercity buses...

stage 3 is hypothetical. It appears on regional plans. I would think that it is a BRT

Thank you @Urban Sky for this thread Here I might add my justification for a "line 5" dmu on the beachburg line: A CN Beachburg DMU line was projected to have higher ridership than the original o train pilot (line2) in the same document that ended up proposing the otrain line 2. (link...

I think funding for ion 2 should be contingent on waterloo adopting presto,. Same with guelph for all day go

Both Conestoga and fairview park malls are large bus terminals. There is a lot of projects in the works beside them. @crs1026 I think its important to consider that the ion had higher prepandemic ridership than the bathurst streetcar (25K vs 20K). Sure the Bathurst streetcar is shorter but it...

from where?? from uw to Conestoga the ion takes 10 minutes and driving takes 8 minutes. The 201 ( bus route which travels this) does it in 17 minutes according to google maps. from waterloo town center to Conestoga the ion takes 14 minutes and driving takes 7-16 minutes. The 7 ( bus route...

@kEiThZ while I do not want to spam Tillsonburg with rail when it is not warranted ( the existing Tillsonburg intercommunity bus serves the places where Tillsonburgers : go see 2016 data below). I must say though that the railfan fantasys one sees in the via subforum are much more wild than a...

I Disagree: When literal Exurbs like Caledon and Bowmanville are clamouring for GO ( last time I checked these aren't the most progressive areas), I think many people want train services

The existing building is being demolished, expect construction to start later this year ( edit there will be a very well known company here - but i cannot reveal it)

@DirectionNorth. otrain line 2 is technically a "commuter rail" by any books. Just a really good one which has LRT frequencies. They even used european regional trains. When I refer to a commuter rail, I refer to a dmu that comes every 10 minutes- not Milton line style.

@kEiThZ the link: https://app06.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/archives/rmoc/Regional_Council/09Sep98/Light.pdf . It doesn't? I was not responding to ARG's comment for a downtown station but the implication that "With the O-Train extensions going so deep into the suburbs, there's no real case for...

I know @Urban Sky doesn't like close station spacing, but a Mooney's bay Via Station could have merit by allowing an easier transfer to line 2 , airport and many other destinations.

@kEiThZ Did you know that a cn beachburg DMU line was projected to have higher ridership than the original o train pilot (line2) in the same document that ended up proposing the otrain line 2. I believe that there were over 15K riders /day proposed, and this was in 2000! Now that lines 1,2,3...

is it feasible to have some trains from bramalea go to the airport (reverse on the the airport branch) then turn to UP trains at the airport to continue to union? . this would: 1) solve the issue of the UP taking away track slots to bramalea 2) give the west an easy ride to the airport 3) de...

@superelevation This is what Otrain is being built to do. Line 3 and line 1 will be branched in the suburbs and will converge in the center. I'm not exactly sure how that negates my main point which is that running a low floor tram as a metro in Canada is new

So kitchener-guelph takes about 17 minutes on the go train, which means it takes ~34+4 minutes for a round trip (extra 4 minutes for getting off) It should be possible to have maybe an hourly 3 car train go kitchener-guelph round trip at off peak- weekend times. Such a service would be...

I have a theory that one of the reasons that never had the right footing is thata lot of initial routes were in less densely populated parts of Atlantic Canada, rather than adding commuter like service in southern Ontario, ex why weren't Toronto-London-St thomas or Hamilton-St Catherine-Welland...

There is a rumor in a discord server that GO did a 'secret' study pre pandemic on proper London GO service long before the current GO expansion (ie all day). the cost was somewhere in the 100 millions. Not sure how reliable the source is but it suggests that there is something in the works.