denfromoakvillemilton
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Unless our Ontario government has been telling fibs....money was never the issue....they have a ReR plan and have repeatedly described it as fully funded.....so all that happened today is someone in Ottawa decided to free up $1.9B of money for Ontario.
Metrolinx comes off as disorganized, they were supposed to have hired the people at least 5 years ago, when the plan was to get everyone on board by mid decade. Now the goal is 2020, and they are still not ready.It's clearly a lot more money than you would need to add the fourth track to the GTS from Union to Bramalea, considering that many parts are roughed in. But the third track through Brampton will be quite expensive, and grade crossings add to the cost. Mount Dennis is a committed new station. Maybe some of that is in scope.
Certainly, the comment by MP Saini about two grade separations and a train layover facility fits a Malton to Mount Pleasant area. There is a layover area planned for Mt Pleasant.
But if GO is serious about triple track through Brampton, one would expect that a Brampton MP would have been included in the announcement. The absence of any local municipal pols is interesting, also. I'm not sure Brampton Council is particularly on side to the impacts in central Brampton.
Encouraging to see money on the table to get on with things, but we may need to wait to find out the exact details.
As others have commented, it means naught if GO bobbles the other prerequisites to increasing service..... like increasing its labour force. The announcements today repeated that GO intends to ramp up the number of trains per week to a huge degree. There is no indication that they have the people to do that in the pipeline.
- Paul