Recent content by liamdevlin02

CP Belleville, CP North Toronto, CN York and CN Halton immediately come to mind as "cross town" lines, but these are unlikely candidates for extensive passenger rail service or RER. Service on York and Halton would make my commuting immeasurably easier, so I'd be a fan of it, if it were to ever...

Do you recall where this was? It's usually a bit slower going through the switches from the Kingston sub and the GO sub west of Pickering GO and they don't pick up as it's close to the station. Pickering to Ajax and Ajax to Whitby, I can match my highway speed to the train and it ends up being...

That's why I said kind of like it - if they had run it right, it would have been a service more like the one you linked to.

That sounds a bit like a train that used to be run by a different government agency in this province... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northlander

Why would they rename it to 407 from 35/115? When it gets to the connection point with 35/115, it's a junction like any other highway junction.

The Durham BRT is going to run along Kingston Road and likely along Ellesmere to Scarborough Centre, which would be complementary to the Sheppard LRT not a replacement for it.

What wonderfully short sighted thoughts. Thank God you'll no longer have to endure the 30 seconds of noise these trains make as they pass by your apartments. Don't be at all concerned about the thousands in the North who will be affected by their no longer running. In terms of a broader...

Was this actually given (formally or informally) as the reason for the delay or is this hyperbole?

Ontario, at least the present government and the Official Opposition, is not interested in operating any rail that isn't commuter/feeder into Toronto (see: destruction of Ontario Northland). Which is shame, because the idea has a lot of merit.

All kidding aside, if people stopped being in such a panic to get into the express there would be no backlog at Morningside, McCowan or Kennedy on the WB 401 in the morning.

I acknowledge that there are logistical issues, but since the trains are already running counter to the flow and are already crewed, part of the problems outlined before are solved. Its unfortunate that GO would rather build layovers to the north than service a potential new market with some...

There is very limited freight traffic. Some jobs run from Oshawa yard into the city, some jobs work the industries in west Pickering/east Scarborough.

Wouldn't the Richmond Hill line be a good candidate to avoid those problems, since they're already running trains north in the morning and south in the evening?

If Greyhound is screwing up their service to Peterborough, those passengers will be primed for the eventual return of train service from the intriguing, but poorly named, Shining Waters Railway. http://shiningwatersrailway.com/index.php Adam http://walkerweb.ca

I like the strategy/route for the east side, but I'm confused by the routing for the extension. (I assume we're thinking that the DRL would stop at Eglinton, thus anything up to Sheppard would be extra?) Anyway, you said open air, following the Richmond Hill line (CN Bala subdivision), but...