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I suppose I do see the appeal of Alliston, but I’m inclined to think a more likely extension beyond Bolton would be a greenfield line to Orangeville.

On that wish list note, my big one is airline style lie flat pods. I really see it as more marketable here than the alternative budget sleeper options.

Honestly? Now that we've committed to the form that the SSE has, and and least expressed an explicit attempt for a Sheppard Subway that stays on Sheppard.... I don't know if the corridor DOES have a lot of value left.

I'll say that since I was involved in that Ryerson look at Collingwood passenger rail the emergence of ride sharing, especially if linked to the Innisfil model has done a lot to make the last mile seem less of a hurdle on the tourist side of things.

My understanding is that these things are closely related - the idea of recommending Milton had a lot to do with avoiding a new escarpment crossing. I don't like this project, or want it to go ahead... but between the current version and a direct Guelph one ploughing straight through the most...

Methinks this has a horrifyingly high likelihood of being prophetic on the level of grumbling about a "Newmarket stub" when Sheppard opened predicting Viva Yellow... Which would be consistent with the lot of them being heavily invested in real estate.

For my part this may not be a wholly terrible thing. My suggestion is really that this corridor is almost uniquely suitable to Tram-Train operation assuming Hespeler Road light rail is built... No, that Galt link won't be fast, but it will have far better connectivity than rebuilding Fergus...

Sure, lets forever slam the door on a proper connection to Guelph because Paul Langan thinks Toronto is the only destination in the universe and no one seems to be noticing how extraordinarily good the cost benefit ratio is on the lower end versions of this. Whether you like the shuttle or not...

That last one does feel like it could have had some things going for it if it had been positioned as an alternative to ION.

I really don't see the appeal of these proposals in that they are going to be really very costly and do a lot less for Niagara Falls in general than an LRT. These would all upgrade GO, at significatn expense while quite possibly hurting cross border passenger service... While most LRT alignments...

Almost certainly... BUT: If costs on the low end of light modern streetcar can be assured there might just be something to this if extended downtown on a private ROW parallel to Lakeshore; and This is the kind of query that can lead to more sensible proposals getting political attention if...

I’d suggest it’s the second part of this, rather than volume that really matters. It’s not about whether the volume is roughly equivalent, but whether that demand is meaningfully split at Eglinton. My suspicion is that, with a GO, Eglinton LRT and possibly OL connection at Mount Pleasant the...

I’ve come to the conclusion that if it comes back we shouldn’t be looking at light rail south of Eglinton, quite possibly divert the LRT over to Mount Dennis, with the intent of something metro like, be it standalone or an OL branch, south of Eglinton where the tunneling is needed.

Meh; If it doesn't get connected to a 407(ish) busway I see a very real possibility that it ends up in a SRT like situation where the problem is a lot less the actual technology than the politics and perception of the transfers that come with it.

I mean it’s true in both cases… it’s just that that only really means that the corridor geometry will accommodate rail.

I think any real conclusions on the Don Branch have to wait on VIA as well… it’s a temping approach for HFR, albeit with a lot of the same problems as above… otoh, through running Milton trains would probably help more than hurt unions capacity, especially if a fly under is built to Don trains...

agree totally on the east/west s-bahn (maybe a couple more stations in Kitchener though) but a tram train down Hespeler Rd seems a better fit for the Fergus service. I do like the concept of an Elmira train as an alternative to more highway expansion in the rural areas, though I grant it’s a...

My three notes would be that: a genuinely local line from Guelph to New Hamburg would very nicely finish the triangle and mostly piggyback on GO infrastructure; Once I start including Guelph in Waterloo Region mapping I’m inclined to toss in an extension of the Milton train to Guelph via the...

I’m guessing closer to RapidTO than anything that developed, but yeah, the corridors could all support it. Frankly if I had my way the approach to this would be similar to LA Metro in the early days of Rapid…. Less setting a desired level of imrpovements than providing the maximum level that...

Has anyone said this shit? no. They haven’t. there have been objections to racialzed language on the lines of literal ’those peoples’. there have been comments about financial hardship. there have been comments about vulnerable and exploited populations. there have been notes about larger...