EnviroTO
Senior Member
The route for the Peterborough line uses the CP tracks from Peterborough to Leaside and the GO Don Branch to Union. There is a separate thread for that and you can Google Shining Waters Railway for more details.
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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)
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SGHA504
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How cool would that be, a ski train here in Ontario? I know the tracks don't run that deep into Collingwood on the BCRY as ShonTron noted...but in an ideal train-dreamer world, GO service could extend to Collingwood on winter weekends, as the Lakeshore West service extends to Niagara in the summer. Just a pipedream, I know...
RedRocket191
Senior Member
Even though the tracks do not go into downtown Collingwood anymore, the right-of-way is largely intact. One of the Ryerson University client-based studio projects last year was a feasibility study on passenger rail service between Toronto and Collingwood. The study was commissioned by Collingwood, Wasaga Beach and Town of the Blue Mountains, so there's interest from the municipalities at a concept level.
Public transit isn't going to be profitable in this environment. The question should be "what will it take to get the line to the point where the losses are easy to subsidize?"
Northern Magus
Active Member
The tipping point probably is: gasoline hitting $2/litre
smallspy
Senior Member
At which point such luxuries such as weekend ski trips and cottages are likely to only be reachable by those who can still afford to drive with $2/litre gas.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
Northern Magus
Active Member
...and those who can't and still want to will be clamouring for rail transit. They'll always outnumber the 1%.
Towered
Senior Member
As an avid skier, I've dreamt of rail service to Collingwood/Blue Mountain for years. It would be so much more civilized, almost European! If anything, being forced to drive up there only discourages me from going, so if a cozy train option were available, I would go far more often.
andrewpmk
Senior Member
It's 1 hour 43 minutes, almost as long as the commute to Kitchener! This is an insanely long commute, GO is basically becoming like VIA on these routes. I would not be surprised if a large fraction of the customers on this route are not daily commuters, but rather intercity travellers who might take the bus back the other direction.
Jonny5
Senior Member
I find it fascinating that the Barrie GO train service actually existed twenty years ago (EDIT: Damn, it was actually thirty!). And there was even talk of extending the line to Orillia. Guelph had GO train service back then too, and Kitchener was asking for it. It boggles the mind what the GO network would look like today if funding was never cut back. We might have some kind of GO service to Sudbury by now.
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royalrivers
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Update on ridership numbers for KW/Guelph: http://swo.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/...region-ridership-120206/20120206/?hub=SWOHome
k10ery
Senior Member
150/day. OM Freaking G.
Northern Magus
Active Member
I think that's just betwen Kitchener and Guelph stations: it's expected to rise.
That line itself has a daily ridership of over 15,000.
TOareaFan
Superstar
No...I think that is the number of people using it daily from those stations to Toronto....this is the quote "On average, 150 people take the new weekday round-trip train service into Toronto"
nfitz
Superstar
From Waterloo Region. Therefore it doesn't include people who board in Guelph heading to Toronto.
Therefore, that's just the traffic between Kitchener and Guelph.
TOareaFan
Superstar
Honestly, I can see how it could be read both ways now.....so not sure.