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My favorite names are East Lakeshore West, South Lakeshore and East Lakeshore South![]()
"The Horseshoe"
My favorite names are East Lakeshore West, South Lakeshore and East Lakeshore South![]()
Metrolinx needs to follow Amtrak RFP
Electric Locomotives will provide sufficient horsepower to provide continuous 125 mph operation when used in a train consist of one (1) locomotive and eighteen (18) cars.
http://www.apta.com/passenger_transport/notices/index.cfm#b04
Somewhat OT, re: EMUs
I always wondered what Toronto's transportation system would look like if we had been a Commonwealth city in a country more physically removed from the United States. Our transportation system and policy (and those of other Canadian cities) was identical to major American cities up until the Second World War, so we built interurbans, bought PCCs and widened long, straight arterial roads. When we built a subway it was clearly in the New York/Chicago mould.
In contrast, major Commonwealth cities outside of Canada tended to invest in electric, suburban heavy rail systems rather than in interurbans and, as a result, this influenced suburban planning long after interurbans in North America were abandoned. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Mumbai, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Kolkata all have extensive electric railways as the backbone of their transportation systems. I'm pretty sure that Toronto and Montreal would have them too, if we weren't more directly influenced by the US.
Also if the Downtown Relief Line gets built here in Toronto I hope it services Union Station as well. It is a major transit hub that needs good connections with our city's transit system.
And yet one more hope I have is that they move the Coach Canada Terminal up on Bay so that it is at Union Station as well. I think it is better for everyone if different modes of transit have convenient connections to the other modes of public transit such as streetcars, subways, city buses, commuter buses and commuter rail. Union Station has so much potential. Such inteconnectivity will help GO ridership as well I strongly feel.
NOTICE OF STUDY COMPLETION GEORGETOWN TO KITCHENER RAIL EXPANSION THE STUDY
GO Transit, the Province of Ontario’s inter-regional public transit service for the Greater Torontoand Hamilton areas, has undertaken a Preliminary Design Study and Class EnvironmentalAssessment (EA) to expand rail services from Georgetown to Kitchener.
The Study hasidentified passenger demand for the extended service, track improvements, stations andstorage facilities, park and ride facilities and integration with local transit. The study area isfrom the Mount Pleasant GO Station in west Brampton to the Kitchener/Waterloo Region.
This study was conducted in compliance with the planning process for a Group “B†projectunder GO Transit’s Class Environmental Assessment, which is approved under the OntarioEnvironmental Assessment Act. The Class EA study included consultation with the public andrelevant review agencies.
Details of the preferred alternatives include these stations:
Acton – Hide House;
Guelph –Downtown VIA;
Breslau – Greenhouse Road and
Kitchener – Downtown VIA,
and a layoverfacility at Nafziger Road, Baden.
THE PROCESS
The Environmental Study Report (ESR) documenting the planning and design process for theClass EA will be filed on the Public Record for a 45 calendar day review period from July 23 toSeptember 7, 2009. An electronic copy is available at www.gotransit.com, under the projectsand studies tab [not there right now....]
It doesn't show up on the map but if you type it in, it seems to be the same road as "Township Road 72"I was looking on Google Maps, and I couldn't find a "Greenhouse Road" in Breslau for the life of me.
It doesn't show up on the map but if you type it in, it seems to be the same road as "Township Road 72"
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&sour...3.492098,-80.394902&spn=0.02223,0.055747&z=15