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The current Ottawa-Kingston route takes a sizeable detour through Brockville (about 40km) and the current Ottawa-Montreal route also meanders a bit more than the old rail corridor to its north (which I was told is actually reserved for an eventual HSR corridor). I maintain that the marginal...

I very much agree that Ottawa-Kingston is an essential piece of the corridor puzzle. I'm just saying that the environmental sensitivity and relatively difficult terrain don't make the easiest or cheapest of stretches. I do disagree about having a Toronto-Montreal sans-Ottawa line ― the distance...

I can see HSR being built in phases, with trains running at HSR speeds where the track has been upgraded (London-Toronto, Ottawa-Montreal and Montreal-QC will probably be first in line) and at slower speeds where it hasn't (sections like Kingston-SmithFalls or London-Windsor will probably be the...

If you're going to run BD trains to Kennedy anyways, why not avoid the expense of tunnelling the teal line between GO Danforth and Victoria Park and just run it along the existing rail RoW to Kennedy?

I really like the teal line as an alternative to the Scarborough Subway ― because of the limited number of stops, it would be a much more attractive alternative to the car time-wise. Having a RER service semi-parallel to subway lines (which, though more frequent, have many more stops) is a great...

What? Perhaps for high-floor LRVs in older systems like Calgary and Edmonton, but, just looking at floor height, low-floor LRVs are already 80cm lower (1.1m vs. 0.3m). Granted, the electrical equipment usually found on the bottom of subway cars is displaced to the top of LRVs, but there is...

Really? I always figured you'd just need to add the overhead wires, raise the height of the tracks at stations, narrow the gauge of the tracks and possibly rework some of signalling. If it hasn't already been done, I think it might be worth studying at the least.

Maybe this has already been answered, but have they considered converting the Sheppard subway line to underground LRT so that people don't have to transfer twice to get from Sheppard east to Downtown? It could be done in much the same way as Eglinton, I'd imagine.

I disagree — those lines don't serve London as much as they serve Brantford, Hamilton, Stratford, Woodstock, etc. With rising driving costs (which are arguably already unaffordable) and preferences shifting away from driving, any community hoping to attract people, industry and investment will...

Do we know when the announcement will be?

I like it! I like the alignment along the Canal - we could easily replace the Queen Elizabeth Drive with surface LRT. However, I might split the Carling line from the Gatineau line: Gatineau's travel patterns are pretty unidirectional and commuter-oriented, so you'd have a lot of empty seats...