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Hi, this is a timeline of Ontarian tram and trolleybus systems using data from this source. Its neat to see the transition from horse tramways to electric tramways and then to trolleybuses. I am working on a project to create an interactive map of Ontarian tramways by year

Another article advocating for trains to Cambridge: the Mayor of Cambridge supports the advocacy https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/cambridge-go-trains-advocacy-1.7060368

Relevant new article https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/buy-the-track-and-go-cambridge-wants-to-see-action-on-passenger-rail-service/article_12961ebf-5bfb-567c-8e2c-93d06bb71747.html "A study for the preliminary design of a GO connection between Cambridge and Guelph is underway...

Not to mention the funded Hamilton LRT, the proposed Ottawa stage 3 LRT, and the Gatineau and Quebec city trams. All of which are at least in the 4 billion range. Just last week Quebec paused work on their tramway after costs were projected to reach $8 billion ! ION's cost of $868 million/19 km...

ION will not be cut to 30 minute frequencies!

I have been working on a technical document outlining the reasons why ion is slow (snippet below) (note this is non-official)

https://www.youtube.com/live/3g8EhYtZ6fE?si=MW24Kr3FQtRveJqv Interesting tidbit - A ROW report will be released in March 2024 about the Cambridge-Guelph expansion

Someone made a new Video on Youtube about London GO. Seems like a decent number of people got off at Stratford.

Simcoe is no longer a small county - it has over 500K ppl as of the 2021 census. IMO Collingwood-Barrie passenger rail is justified by the population growth itself: Collingwood has 22,983 ppl and is growing at +13.7% Wasaga has 22,194 ppl and is growing at +19.0% Stayner has 4,699 and is...

I think Amtrak's strategy of paying several hundred million dollars for maybe 2-3 trains a day in the ConnectsUS plan should not be replicated in Canada In general I think the old interurbans should be idealized more: hourly or better service seven days a week and fully electrified. (see old...

Its worth to note that ION stage 2 is already somewhat of an interurban. it has 8 stations in 19 km! (compare Finch west with 18 stations in 10.3 km). Large parts of the lrt would be in fully grade separate corridors (the region has pushed for more grade separation following lessons from the...

I think simply increasing service to All day 2 way on several corridors will increase ridership substantially ( Theres a whole Facebook car pooling world which could be made obsolete), In cities like Kitchener, Hamilton or Barrie, there is probably more off-peak travel to Toronto than on-peak...

Waterloo Airport is quite good for national and vacation destinations . However, the runway is too short for international planes. There are provisions to expand but it would be expensive and would run into opposition. Keep in Mind that Pearson is not only the main international airport for...

Improving Kw - Guelph - Kw airport and Pearson connectivity is a good long term thing to do. The current backtrack from Weston is undesirable and the new Woodbine station should help. I think building a western wye from the Brampton sub to the UP guideway and running a couple (lightweight)...

There are pretty huge developments that are being built on the Fergus sub. These two separate projects are at VMC density Even if Milton routing is selected (it won't) The Fergus sub is a good place for an ion stage 4 tram-train anyways as future tod in the area is very dense (seen above)

In a way the current Ontario line and the proposed 407 light metro which will connect to the Ontario line are both spiritual successors of GO - Urban

New docs: https://pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=2457 https://pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=2458 There is a new orientation of the bus bays:

New docs: https://pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=2457 https://pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=2458 There is a new orientation of the bus bays:

If one wants to save these trees you must be content with the karma of that action (good and bad). If you are willing to delay to save the trees you have to be prepared to spend dozens of millions (of tax payer $) for station redesign and risk having the ol delayed for several years

This is concept of what it would look like if Toronto's Downtown GO Stations were spaced like trains in Sydney: