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Do they hook the train up to power overnight? It appears that way from Google satellite view, but I could be mistaken. Would they be able to do that with 2 six car trains in one storage track?

Does anyone know why GO has train 3937 (final train of the night departing at 10:34 from Union) terminating at Guelph Central instead of Kitchener GO? Presumably since they have 10 trains per day Kitchener-Union and only 9 per day Union-Kitchener, this train ends up continuing to Kitchener to...

Almost all of Hydro One's buried high voltage lines are 115kV, but I do know they have a dual 230kV circuit buried a short distance between Queen where it passes under the Obico Subd and the Horner Transformer Station on Kipling, so burying 230kV isn't entirely unprecedented for Hydro One...

So assuming that service to London goes forward, what intermediate stations would they likely have? St. Mary's and Stratford are obvious. I think New Hamburg or Baden would be a contender as well, although there are no station facilities in either community at present.

The reference to Go train service was added sometime before Sept 24, 2020, and it's been listed as a transit option for years prior (I didn't bother checking earlier than 2017). It seems to me that if they were responding to Greyhound ceasing service, wouldn't it be easier to just add a bus...

You have a second on the handlebars in a pinch. :p That's what I was talking about. Ride my bike to Goderich on the rail trail through Blyth, and then take the train back to Guelph on the not-abandoned route through Stratford.

I'll be long dead before passenger service is ever resurrected to Goderich, but boy would I love this. Ride the G2G trail from Guelph to Goderich, stopping for lunch at Cowbell in Blyth, and then hopping on the train back to Guelph.

The change there is really astonishing. I don't know if a neighbourhood in Canada has ever seen such a wholesale transformation without it happening under a directed urban renewal program. It will be interesting to see how it matures over the next ten years.

I'd be interested in knowing more about that restriction as well. I quite enjoyed the style of the video and her commentary.

Perhaps Hwy 60 through the park? It seems surprisingly they would avoid the 401.

That really seems needlessly complicated.

I really don't think it's on the radar for anyone.

Lanes were painted on the newly paved collectors heading westbound between James Snow Parkway and 25, which suggests that they will be shifting westbound traffic over soon. There are some fairly significant grade differences to the new surface they've been constructing, so I imagine there will...

They were assembled at the maintenance facility and I recall vehicle testing started once the eastern section between Blair and Belfast Stations was ready. I seem to remember it being quite some time after before the full line opened for service, but the exact timeframe escapes me.

Stratford's train station is actually fairly well located on the whole. It's just on the edge of downtown, and only a block away from it's main transit terminal (though the 30min service is pretty poor). Frankly, though, assuming you are reasonably mobile, it's probably just easier to walk to...

As of last night, the westbound lanes of the 401 between Townline and Franklin in Cambridge have shifted to the newly paved section before switching back after Franklin. The exit to Hespeler continues on the new section from the Franklin overpass. It appears that they were doing a lot of work...

Yeah, Some are pretty stark and depressing, and it's hard to understand why they didn't just put some picnic tables under a few trees in all of them. Still, some are relatively decent. In all cases, though, they're tucked off to the side without really anything pointing people to them.

A lot of the ServiceOntario centres actually have pretty nice picnic areas, it's just easy to miss if you don't know to look for them.

Interestingly, it seems there are more active freight customers along the line from Stratford to Goderich than along the line between London and Kitchener. It does appear like a lot of the line between Kitchener and London might have been double-tracked in the past, so that might make it easier...

Just remember that Canada is a global leader in high-speed rail studies. We have to play to our strengths.