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RE: GO Transit - Bytor - 05-17-2024 (05-16-2024, 01:46 PM)KevinT Wrote:(03-19-2024, 04:47 PM)Bytor Wrote: Of course, I think we should have both Guelph and Milton, and the Lakeshore West Hamilton→Brantford extension that takes back the Paris rail trail and loops up to Cambridge. You can have trails beside active rail lines. You could easily shift the walking trail over with enough width for double-tracking all the way from Cambridge to Paris. And with a proper 110mph (177km/h) intercity rail system, it's not a time-consuming jog through Brantford. Cambridge → Paris ~21km, ~8 minutes Paris → Brantford, ~12km, ~6 minutes Brantford → Hamilton, ~36km, ~13 minutes, using the Hamilton-Brantford rail trail right of way. With a 1 minute dwell time at Paris and Brantford, that's 29 minutes. Going through Branchton, Harrisburg and Lynden instead Cambridge → Harrisburg Wye, 22km, ~8 minutes Harrisburg Wye, 2km, 2 minutes Harrisburg Wye → Lynden ~6km, ~ 4 minutes Lynden→Hamilton, ~30km, ~14 minutes With a 1 minute well time at Lynden, that's also 29 minutes. Again, the 90° curves around the RBG and Main / Dundurn, but also a very tight wye track at Harrisburg to turn towards Lynden which reduces one's speed significantly. And that means from the wye to Lynden the train can only get up to ~55mph (87km/h) instead of 110mph. I rounded the Lynden mileage down and the Brantford route up, and it also depends on the actual geometry of what that wye through Harrisburg was, which I was also generous as to speed for it. It could ad as much as 5 minutes instead of 2 onto the Cambridge to Lynden portion. So, overall, If both routes existed with modern electric inter-city rail, you'd probably get to Hamilton 5 minutes faster going through Brantford if all these rails had not been abandoned and had been kept in use and upgraded over time. RE: GO Transit - coriander - 05-22-2024 (05-17-2024, 12:11 PM)jeremyroman Wrote:(05-16-2024, 10:30 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: We could have a bus service to Guelph tomorrow...the fact we aren't shows we're either bad at this, or not serious about this. GO route 17 is painfully slow getting into Guelph. Moving between the universities and Guelph Central takes up a literal hour, or three times longer than the train travel time between Kitchener GO and Guelph Central. Adding additional rail service is leaps and bounds better for the speed alone. RE: GO Transit - tomh009 - 05-22-2024 (05-22-2024, 10:57 AM)coriander Wrote:(05-17-2024, 12:11 PM)jeremyroman Wrote: But we _do_ have a bus service to Guelph -- GO Transit route 17 (admittedly, only hourly on weekdays): https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/v1692813432/Documents/GO/full-schedules/FS02092023/TABLE17.pdf That's not an apples-to-apples comparison, though: from Victoria/Frederick to Guelph Central seems to be about 32-34 minutes. If you want to compare train travel time then you need to add the 15 minutes (plus connection time) for the LRT as well--or the bus ride from Laurier. |