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GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)
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Long Branch platform work:
dowlingm
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Is there any hint as yet on a go live date for West Harbour west approach track?
smallspy
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PL1
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2025?
goodcitywhenfinished
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Ford announces “GO 2.0”
Is Ford just rebranding GO Expansion for election clout or is there anything we didn’t know here?
407 Missing link is the only big thing in this announcement but didn’t the consultation process start years ago?
nfitz
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Well it does say increased frequency on the Milton and Kitchener corridors compared to the existing plans. Along with the CN freight bypass (which seems expensive and superfluous with the additional track and GO fly-over).
ARG1
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If you actually read what he wrote he's quite clearly talking about a next generation of projects to be accomplished after GO Expansion. He's basically calling on Metrolinx to study new routes, extensions, and infrastructure to enable service expansion. He's using the Missing Link as an example of something that should be worked on and studied.
evanb
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The midtown GO line is back on the menu!
innsertnamehere
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Exactly this.
We can look to MTO's 2051 GGH transportation plan for inspiration:
I Imagine we would see:
1. Milton Electrification
2. Toronto Northern GO route - a new commuter rail / metro route from Hamilton to Oshawa via North Oakville, Mississauga, Pearson, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham, Seaton, and Brooklyn
3. GO RER extension to Downtown Hamilton GO
4. GO RER Extension to Kitchener
Other potentials which aren't identified in the GGH 2051 TMP:
1. GO Midtown Line
2. Bolton GO line
3. Brantford GO service (connections to Downtown Hamilton?)
4. Niagara RER
5. Uxbridge GO extension
6.Guelph - Cambridge GO
7. GO RER to Bowmanville
8. London GO service
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crs1026
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This is high level and focussed well off into the future, but it actually recites substantive and key themes and puts them in explicit writing. And, if Doug actually reads any of this, it's a good primer for what we would want a politician to know if they took a serious run at federal politics.
Interesting that this is now formally documenting a link with MOT. That's already happened, but it's a bit of a tweak to the Metrolinx mandate as previously practiced or assumed.... ie less of a theoretically independent agency.
Now show me dollars committed in a Provincial Budget Statement. Quite a lot to get done by then, but this is a wheel turning faster than previously.
- Paul
Interesting that this is now formally documenting a link with MOT. That's already happened, but it's a bit of a tweak to the Metrolinx mandate as previously practiced or assumed.... ie less of a theoretically independent agency.
Now show me dollars committed in a Provincial Budget Statement. Quite a lot to get done by then, but this is a wheel turning faster than previously.
- Paul
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It absolutely is not.
evanb
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It is an inference from the DoFo letter, which talks about the freight rail bypass "missing link" along with the wording of "potential to unlock new GO lines".
Of course it wasn't explicitly mentioned in the letter, but it's reasonable to assume the midtown line would be one of these potential new lines unlocked by the missing link.
crs1026
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Rodney 🚧🚇 (@chanface.bsky.social)
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It is an inference from the DoFo letter, which talks about the freight rail bypass "missing link" along with the wording of "potential to unlock new GO lines".
Of course it wasn't explicitly mentioned in the letter, but it's reasonable to assume the midtown line would be one of these potential new lines unlocked by the missing link.
Replied to this thought in the bypass thread, won't repost it here.
The midtown line may be enabled by the bypass, in some future decade, but it isn't really an immediate deliverable of the current direction.
- Paul
nfitz
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I'd assume it's more a reference to the various other CP lines and old ROWs that radiate out of TO. Oshawa, Peterborough, Vaughan, Orangeville, etc.
I don't think the proposed link from Bramalea to Milton would do anything more than allow for capacity expansion on the Kitchener line.