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And the reason, as best as I understand it, is that if GO's service causes Greyhound or Coach Canada to pull out of a market, they will have political pressure to take over the entire corridor's service. So they might not necessarily be willing to do that, though I hope GO Transit's new facility...

Metrolinx owns the track, but it seems that CN currently makes operational decisions.

This is true until GO no longer wants it to be true, as GO Transit does not have to get a license to operate any route. However, if it were to run direct from Toronto to KW, it needs to be willing to pick up the whole corridor service if Greyhound pulls out. As for why GO buses do not currently...

The project is about guiding land development much more than it is about current ridership, and there's a lot of developable land along Hespeler Road. Arguably they are overdoing it, by exploring alignments for Phase 2 that are so keen on development impacts that they're ridiculous for getting...

The more companies open offices in both Kitchener-Waterloo and Toronto, the more need there is for travel between the two cities, not less. If you have teams spread across the two sites, then sometimes they work better when they're in the same place; if you have separate teams then sometimes...

Politically, if GO Transit launched two-way service to Kitchener tomorrow, it would be hailed as a big win. Cambridge would be loudest in "why not us", not London.

No updates. The GO Transit facility on Shirley Ave is under construction with the train portion completed this year - to enable an additional 2 "peak direction" trains from Kitchener to Toronto in the morning and back in the afternoon. As of only a few months ago the rail line is finally...

No. Stations will be basic platforms with small shelters and a decorative wall. Most of the stations are along relatively narrow streets in an urban environment - large enclosed stations were never on the table. The only thing that could look like that is the King/Victoria transit hub, but that...

By making it a pilot project that is explicitly temporary - and then using the presumed massively positive experience and data to turn temporary into permanent despite preliminary worries. The potential for negative consequences is a lot less scary and threatening when it's not forever...

Not to say that its streetcars are necessarily competitive or that it isn't small, but Brookville has apparently been producing rail equipment of various kinds for nearly a century.

I think an even more interesting effect would be the massive speed-up of GO buses that travel along it, reducing their costs and running time, increasing reliability, frequency, and demand.

What does this mean?

That's the idea, though how aggressive the priority will be is unclear.

How about this: let's defer any further discussion of the semantics of this vehicle until Bombardier actually produces one.

In common parlance, a long passenger vehicle on rails is a train. And common parlance makes more sense than the above technical definition, since there really is no meaningful distinction to be made between a long articulated passenger rail vehicle and a train of smaller ones.

Yeah, you're right. Also I do recall something about the system being designed to handle two-car trains eventually. As for capacity, you have to recall that the system's primary purpose initially is to help direct growth to the corridor. It isn't needed to handle 2015's demand.

The platforms are for a single 5-segment car, and they will be single-car trains. Edit: I'm wrong about the platform length.

All the vehicles ordered are 5-segment contiguous trains, so I would be surprised if a smaller one were delivered.

They were able to get in on a reasonable price for a reasonable product designed to meet local conditions. It's likely that Metrolinx was able to get a better deal as part of a large contract than Waterloo Region would have been able to get by itself or as part of a bid. This meant that they...

No, it's a new GO bus storage and maintenance facility - this one, I think. I think it would be great PR especially among anyone who's had to travel Greyhound on that corridor, but GO Transit would have to be willing to pick up service on the whole corridor if Greyhound decided to pull out as...