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Given how suddenly the plan for the new GO yard on Metrolinx's old CP track at the Bloor (Prince Edward) Viaduct suddenly got cancelled, after years of telling everyone that such a relatively large facility in an environmentally sensitive, was the only choice ...
I can’t comment on behalf of either party, but the working assumption at Metrolinx seems to be that ALTO would share their tracks and stop at Kennedy station…
I thought that idea went away years ago, when VIA killed the high-frequency-rail plan, and went back to high-speed (again). The published maps went back to using the CP alignment up the valley. Is there even room for 4 tracks up that corridor?
I thought they were going up the Don Branch. If not,they are going up the Uxbridge Sub?
He's been since Sep 16th?
See think maybe Mccowan Rd with a small indoor path bridgeto the rail line. You have line 2 and line 4 terminate there plus have room for a park and ride. Usually cities have a station on the outskirts for suburban catchment.
In Montreal again for,business, but hoping to ride the REM again and catch up on the changes, As a further request, could someone forward the latest report on costing of the Third Link to Doug Ford…..Reece from RM Transit (I know a bit controversial but he gets his point across very succinctly) recently did a substack article on the REM and Alto and the Mont Royal tunnel, which I think is worth a read:
I think that’s a valid point, especially if ALTO and the new government is so bent on cutting project timelines controlling the overall budget, they’ll eventually have to make some tough choices.
And there are so many ways to go about this: upgrading and electrifying the current Via Rail line from Montreal to Quebec into a version of the original HFR (higher speed and higher frequency), while having the core Montreal-Ottawa-TO line as true HSR. I regularly take the Montreal - Quebec City Via Rail service - honestly it’s been quite good with the updated Siemens rolling stock, with nearly sold out trains on many weekdays, and it would most definitely increase in ridership if there’s more frequency and a slightly shorter trip time (like say 2-2.5 hrs).
And of course, there’s always the option to dig a second tunnel thru Mont Royal - not entirely unfeasible - if Quebec really pushes for the HSR option (esp given the fact the Quebec government is no stranger to spending massive amounts on other economically dubious tunneling projects like the Third Link in QC now projected to cost $7 - $9 billion for an 8 km highway tunnel…).
It's definitely crossed my mind a lot. An Ontario centric HSR, "Ottawa - Peterborough - Toronto (Union station) - Mississauga (Pearson Airport) - Kitchener - London - Windsor". It could be a single line.
Perhaps more of an X . One diagonal from Niagara or Branford/Hamilton through TO then onwards to Ottawa. The other from London, perhaps Windsor, through TO and reaching out past the GO lines to Kingston?
