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Certainly seems like an accurate reflection of what's happened, that's for sure.

I'm glad the Guelph link was brought up because it feels as if the plan for it was brought forward, seemed to have a modest cost associated, but was deferred until some vague post-Cambridge LRT future and shelved. My understanding is that Hespeler is largely a commuter suburb that's...

Taking the weekend 30 and transferring to a Kitchener line train at Bramalea, the service changes (at least for now) feel like a system that "works". No milk run 25, no Square One (after 10 years of transferring through it, not being physically present at Square One is a major life goal for me)...

Right on the money here. I am a local resident who has been riding ION regularly through the whole pandemic and since launch. I've seen all the ups and downs (the crashes, crowding already starting to appear in the central uptown-downtown section, empty trains in the suburban sections...

What a circus.

Perfectly captured. This isn't as directly impactful as service suspensions (which governments across Ontario have loved using COVID as an excuse for), but it makes people angry because it rubs it in their face how venal and corrupt the provincial government is, and how the corruption runs so...

Woolwich politics seem like a nightmare. It's been depressing to see a place with pretty tight urban town cores really sprawl out in the last decade or so. Not that Wilmot is any better either. All of that introduces more suburbia that will be an infrastructural nightmare, not least to serve...

This is absolutely the kind of thinking we need approaching the 2030s for what the next step to push for is. Especially in terms of being like, regional Ontario cities have had a big population influx, lots of it sprawl, and how can rapid transit happen in that situation. In Waterloo Region...

It's certainly possible, but seems odd to me. It's a pity they haven't responded to clarify. I'd suspect something signalling related.

Yeah, as a KW resident it's very easy given a few years to see the downsides of the LRT being "watered down" - the one way stations are irritating, the cycling facilities being cut from the plan makes LRT streets a bit of a cycling dead zone, etc. But the one thing I'm thankful of is that the...

This is a good way of looking at things in my opinion. One of the flaws even with "Nu Metrolinx" planning is that, yes, they've moved toward endorsing smaller trains, frequent service, electrification, etc, but the assumption is that this should only be on "core" parts of the network - which...

Bingo. "covid disruption" is going to be cynically quoted as an excuse for just about anything for the next 5 years or more rather than admit actual issues.

Notwithstanding the obvious barriers to this, I don't believe that (in an extreme case), there's anything that could stop a forced sale of a line through act of parliament. It's just that the "extreme" solutions are not politically viable. This is something we should be careful about with...

Yeah, I think this is an example of GO not being responsive to the weekend traveller market. With so many Torontonians clearly having permanently moved to the region, there's going to be an surge in weekend trips back. Even if 5am commuter runs are empty, it's not a good situation for ridership...

I've personally noticed issues with the 25 and 30, as well as hearing about it from other people. I talked to a GO employee a month or so ago while riding an at-capacity 30 bus that had to leave passengers behind, who pointed out that extending the 30 to UWaterloo without any other service...

As a car free person, tourism to the area is looking more viable by the day. Desperately needed.

Seconding this. I'm a firm believer that increased train frequencies really only happened because of strong and consistent Waterloo Region lobbying. There needs to be more lobbying along the length of the line to build up frequencies so that Kitchener and Guelph can be the transfer hubs they're...

Yeah, in particular, not having the 30 on weekends feels like a legacy of the park-and-ride weekday commuter model, which was already out of step with reality even before COVID.

I think this is an especially good observation. Weekend student travel to Toronto/GTA is a niche but paradoxically large market for bus ridership specifically from Waterloo. These are people who are probably bringing luggage, and the market GO is competing with is informal rideshare groups and...

It would be nice if weekend service wasn't so restricted on some parts of the network, or this would be tempting.