Recent content by MidtownKW

This isn't the primary benefit. There are dozens of flights between Toronto and Montreal each day, a dozen or more between Toronto and Ottawa. I have no idea how many car trips, but it's significant. This is not commuter rail, which you can see from the station placement- the intent of this is...

Unless the pricing disincentivized travel between the stop in York Region and Toronto or the timing was for whatever reason very inconvenient, such a stop would be used by a lot of commuters. You're right that there is a sweet spot between speed and accessibility. It will be different for every...

I took Flyglobespan in 2007 from Hamilton to Stansted, twice. It was great. First time was one of their first flights, and for some reason we were given vouchers for the train into the city, the cost of which is one of the biggest downsides to Stansted. Other time I had a seamless connection to...

The concluding paragraph of that article summarizes it as being an issue of stop spacing. Which is not easy to fix. You're right that Ion is slowed by some of the turns it takes very slowly- my non-expert opinion is that it could probably take some of these a bit faster, and maybe one day will...

By astounding coincidence, the MP, MPP and Mayor of my community also all agree that it deserves high-speed rail service.

Hurontario will be different. For one thing, stop spacing is much more appropriate- Hurontario has about the same number of stations as Finch, but is 18 kilometres versus ten for Finch.

He's not even a decade older than the U.S. president. Municipal elections are this year. Draft Crombie?

I don't even think this changes during really cold weather, unless the Region and I have different definitions of cold. I have been on recently at 6:45am, twelve below zero, and the doors still open at stations where no one is getting on or off. I find the change frustrating. One regional...

It has federal heritage designation. I don't think there have been any seriously ideas proposed. ETA: The former Waterloo station became a men's clothing store, so maybe that's an idea?

Ion was done on the cheap- bare bones stations, and a route designed around existing rail corridors as much as around ridership potential. I'm not sure that it's accurate to say that the Region of Waterloo has more discretionary spending room. I don't think Ion Phase 1 would have been built at...

It doesn't make a lot of sense to say "hundreds of condos," either. The airport owns 210 acres. There could be a few thousand residential units, with room to spare for an appreciable public amenity (I am thinking sizeable park instead of spa or casino, but who knows).

I'm not in favour of these cuts to routes 9 and 19, but I'm glad that McCormick didn't get a stop. Look at Line 6 and how much of the problem is attributable to insanely-close stop spacing. McCormick wouldn't be an excessive example of that, but the speed we enjoy on Ion is partly because these...

I just assume that removing stops is politically untenable, at least for now. Maybe there are exceptions. And I don't think express trips are logistically practical. Maybe a request stop system is. This shouldn't be called "LRT" if the situation is that there might be stops that at times have no...

I don't think it's realistic to expect to be able to remove stations. I know you said "ideal world," so I'm not accusing you of thinking this. That is way too many stations, though. 600 metres is far too close for a corridor that, yes, really is not that dense. I didn't realize until now that...

It's a mistake to include Laval because the suburb is already well-connected to Montreal, the addition of the stop will increase costs and- more importantly- travel times. High speed rail is not supposed to serve as commuter rail. If there are political considerations, then that's a different...