doady
Senior Member
If we're going to be labelling the services we ought to be naming them under names that can be understood by an outsider to the network:
GO Local: frequent EMUs with infill stations (2-4 km spacing, 15 minutes)
GO Regional: Similar to today's commuter network (4-10 km spacing, 30 minutes)
GO Express: Intercity Service to replace what is lost by VIA (if GO expands it's mandate to run more intercity-type service throughout Southern Ontario) (10km+ spacing)
GO, by definition is already an express service, while agencies like the TTC and MiWay The New Mississauga Transit are local services. Having a GO Local and GO Express brandings doesn't make sense to me.
"Regional Express", REX, works does help to separate service from the regular commuter rail and subwaya dn streetcars. Plus it's catchy. That said, the use of the word "regional" for this type of rail service is not strictly correct either, especially considering that these sort of high-frequency suburban rail services would not go too far into the suburbs - the range would more limited than traditional commuter rail. It wouldn't be a good idea to provide this level of service to Georgetown or Barrie, for example.
I guess the Brand doesn't need to super technical or descriptive. The metro system in Chicago is just called "L" for example. "CityRail" does sound good in German (Stadtbahn, aka. "S-Bahn"), but in English it doesn't work quite as well...