one could paradoxically say that the third track will be for the HSR and if you want the AD2W service you need the two otherwise worthless buildings to be demoed to fit in the 4th track.
sure, they could try and sell that.....they would look like fools trying it though.
All in all I feel you are being a bit petty here, you complain about anything on the Georgetown line that isn't AD2W to Brampton or that doesn't have some positive effect on brampton... relax.
Call me petty (sure, if it makes you feel better call me anything you want) but right from the first sentence I typed on this subject I said I was looking at this from a Brampton perspective. It is a project that possibly has a direct effect on the community I live in....so I will comment on it as such.
an HSR stop in Brampton doesn't really make sense because of its suburban nature and the close proximity of the Pearson airport stop,
Well, one of the benefits that has been listed for this London-KW-Pearson-Union line was the movement of the thousands of students who attend schools in those markets......how many of those do you think come from the largest city in Canada without a University?
The Pearson stop benefits Brampton how? From the few details we have been told, the HSR stop will be at the terminal building, the closest the 15 minute GO service gets to that is Malton....how would someone from Brampton go to London? Take the GO to Union then switch to a train that doubles all the way back on the same track to London?
the nature of rail lines is that they won't benefit every damn little hamlet they pass through but they will benefit society as a whole.
I may be petty but I haven't taken to describing city well on its way to 600k people as a "dam little hamlet" just to sound superior and advance my argument.
I understand your frustration with the lack of AD2W,
See, here, I think you are carrying over discussions we have had on other threads into this. I have not been harping about AD2W GO in this thread because the provision of 15 minute GO service is part of this service.....I have been wondering how the infrastructure works considering the limitations that have been pointed out to us....but I have taken the announcements on their face....that this HSR happens along with AD2W GO (and in far greater amounts than previously thought).
but there are 5 other lines fighting for it as well and to simply rant on about how Brampton isn't getting absolutely everything that runs through it is silly.
Not even worth discussing....see above, all lines are getting AD2W GO as per the announcements.
as Haljackey has said, this will be a boon for southern ontario and here we are getting bogged down in whether Brampton should allow them to tear down some car repair place to make it work. Its semantics and frankly I see little point in it. at a certain point you have to step back and take a look at what you are really arguing.
Again you are ascribing words/thoughts to me that I have not even spoken. I doubted that you could get 4 tracks through Brampton.....you pointed out that you could and all you would lose were those two automotive buildings and I did not dispute that....I presume you know better than me so if that is all we lose then so be it......that said, I did suggest that some people will squawk about any disruption for something provides no local benefit....sorry if you thought I was going to be one of the squawkers......I would support it...yes, i would advocate for the train stopping in Brampton but that is a future discussion.
Guelph would gain nothing from it, beyond a couple of closed off streets. Technically they may receive AD2W as well, unless the HSR is the same thing as the AD2W, in which case I don't know.
I bowed on any discussion on Guelph....just don't know enough about what is proposed/needed there to offer anything to the discussion.
