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I like the general concept, however, I'm not sure how feasible the station frequency you have illustrated on the rail corridor is, in particular the track bottleneck between the Don River and Pape. Space in rail corridors need to be reserved to run regional rail services. When multiple GO...

Back on topic... King-Pape alignment. End it at Roncesvalles, have it serve the Portlands. Interchanges with GO RER (or Smarttrack, whatever) at Roncesvalles, Shaw, and Gerrard Routing the line to the Portlands makes a convenient extraction point for TBMs, and would also act as a catalyst...

Trust me, I've looked at loads of maps. I'm actually mostly following the non-Kitchener alignment from from the Ecotrain Report. When I talk about a South Ottawa Bypass, I'm talking about building a 13 km bypass of the access to the Ottawa VIA station along the existing rail corridor in South...

Here's what I envision in terms of a conceptual future rail network: Only rail lines with passenger service are shown. Red lines are built to HSR standards Black are electrified conventional lines Grey are unelectrified I imagine following classes of service could exist once the...

The grade separation has less to do with the line's speed and the disruption caused by the frequency of the line. There could easily 6 trains per direction per hour on this stretch of track that would cause a lot of noise and vibration and delays. The rail corridor on Kent Street is also very...

Question: are they 80km/h curves or 50km/h curves? I somehow think the presentation slides weren't proofread as there seem to be a lot of inconsistencies between the slides and the report. Regardless of what the speed of those curves are, I do like the idea of bypassing Acton and Rockway due...

Why should we encourage Greyhound to cooperate with VIA when GO could expand what they do already to the rest of SW Ontario? There's nothing in the rules that prevents GO from competing on the same routes that coach operators currently do.

I am 25. Yes, at least by the time I'm 70.

I'd also be curious to see how a 300km/h HSR alignment following the abandoned Bytown and Ottawa/416 (with adjustments) would compete against the VIA Fast alignment via Smiths Falls and Monkland on TOR-OTT, OTT-MTL and TOR-MTL trips (that is of course if you feel up to it.) While it may be...

Easy come, Easy GO, Will you let me GO?

Short answer, no. The line is barely used as is and would need to some major upgrades to support passenger service. There are also some serious grade-separation and upgrades that need to happen on the Guelph Subdivision along Kent Street in Guelph and at the junction in Guelph between the...

Try taking a VIA train anywhere west of Toronto and talk to me again. My experience of VIA is out of Kitchener where service cut after service cut has made VIA unreasonable. The Toronto-Montreal corridor is VIA's bread and butter, everything else has been stuck by the wayside waiting for freight.

High Speed Rail does not fit VIA's brand image. Citing some examples: I wholly expect VIA rail to give me an excellent cross-country travel experience when I'm on vacation and want to go on expedition and see some Canadian wilderness from the comfort of the panorama car. It's...

There are plans to have two lanes of the total 4 of Weber St open partway though September. The rest of it is planned for either later this year or early next year depending on weather. As for the tracks, there are plans for a total of 3 tracks over Weber. The bridge is being constructed in...

A station here would pair nicely with another park and ride station at Elmira Rd in Guelph which has similar road connectivity and is located on the west end of Guelph. With dedicated park and ride facilities on the fringes of both Guelph and Kitchener, the full-scale (overbuilt) park and ride...

Your assessment of upgrading Highway 6 is definitely a valid one, especially because there are no good alternatives to Highway 6 when travelling between Waterloo/Wellington and the Niagara Region. I'm still of two minds whether or not the full Highway 7N is even needed. Many of the problems...

All the easier to replace on the new EMUs when we get them.

So, had a hopefully not too ridiculous idea about how to add some redundancy to the Hamilton road network. Build a tunnel under the Royal Botanical Gardens and Hamilton Harbour. The tunnel would serve numerous functions including an alternate access to the mountain (there is currently excess...

I'd take it further and put variable tolls on all the highways east of the 401/407 Junction and West of the Durham Connector. Province is happy because they get revenue to do things with. Transit riders are happy because it means money for new infrastructure, more frequent service, and not...

Hamilton will always be a slave to its Geography. Below the mountain, there aren't very many non-expensive options left to expand the road network. The only two I see are either somehow connecting up Burlington St to York Street near Dundurn Castle (probably requiring either a tunnel or...