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The only issue with your idea is that it requires coherent and intelligent planning around freight that isn't highway expansion, and that doesn't happen in Ontario. Lots of European countries are pushing toward revitalizing freight rail, but knowing Canada, that trend will only hit here a decade...

As a longtime Northland rider I've been an advocate that especially if the Northlander is resumed, the trigger needs to be pulled on fare/ticketing modernization. You can't have a Greyhound-like ticketing process and still maintain a functional system in the 21st century. I don't blame ONTC for...

Yes, and unfortunately with this prolonged boiling-frog death, we already saw the loss of most routes and physical facilities that benefited underserved areas the most, such as in Western Canada or Northern Ontario, which are also places where you don't see governments stumbling over themselves...

I think it's also unfair to dismiss the Fergus sub in of itself. A GO service would capture any (existing or possible) passengers who currently have to go KW/Cambridge->Aberfoyle->Guelph with a transfer at Aberfoyle, bringing more passengers back onto the rail system and away from motor coaches...

My understanding is that there's been a few years of Metrolinx and regional studies showing there's a fair bit of pure Kitchener-Guelph and Cambridge-Guelph ridership. I think we need to get away from seeing the single seat ride to Union as the end all and be all. Where the would really help...

I think it would be a shame if Via got away from checked baggage since I think that's one of the big advantages for them over GO trains or coach travel, and I imagine there would be more demand if there was a substantive shift away from domestic flights to rail for routes like Toronto-Montreal...

This makes me glad things went the way they did in Waterloo Region, with dedicated lane LRT. Otherwise, with driver culture as it is, I suspect the lane would have been lost in crucial parts like this.

Yup. Ontario continues to act like shortline freight rail is an anachronism when countries like Germany are pushing for new industrial developments to have rail access, and retrofit existing ones with it that don't have it already, under climate goals.

I agree that a lot of people I know, especially younger people, have the perception of Via as expensive and GO as cheap. Though especially within the corridor, I wish there was more of an effort for short-trip price reductions outside of the GO zone. I understand the argument that this might tie...

This is another good example of how stigmatizing "wheelie kids" is fundamentally stigmatizing kids on bikes. I see teens on bikes doing stupid stuff all the time, but at the end of the day, at least they're on a bike. Teens doing stupid stuff in cars has a much, much worse track record.

Exactly. This could be taken any direction and Chagger probably just wanted an excuse to have her name in the media. You could interpret it any way you want: HFR is a "fancy project" that will be deferred, or HFR isn't a fancy project, it's a practical one that will likely be sold as a bundle of...

Not everyone shops around for places to live. Plenty of people want to live where they were born, where their friends and family are, and in a community where they feel comfortable. Places like Sudbury have seen incredible decay in train service in the last 40 years. You can't take train service...

Very clear whenever you look at the promotional materials for the new "Transportation Plan". Highway rest stops (for the trucking industry), highway widening (for the trucking industry), vague comments about more buses (second-class transit for second-class people in the north), and a promise to...

I like to think that somewhere, Sir Adam Beck cracked a smile at this one. Only a hundred years late I suppose.

What's the issue with non-enclosed overhead racks for TC? Is it to mitigate luggage flying everywhere in a crash or something?

Yeah, I can't say I envy daily commuters who go the full length of the line. Adding Breslau will inevitably add time to journeys, and the departures can already be pretty eye-wateringly early. Any time that can be gained would easily translate to more ridership, I think -- it makes it a much...

Is there a non-overnight/sleeper schedule that would result in it pulling into Union at, say, 8:30am and pulling out after 5pm? It seems quite unlikely, especially the former.

Would this be a concern, though? I wouldn't think the operating hours for the Northlander would make it viable for commuters anyway.

It says a lot that a new highway is a higher priority for the province than Breslau GO, unfortunately.

Are there any other locations besides Fairway?