1: This project uses the special “secondary plan” for Hespeler Road and the existing MTSA framework to get a station built in a location that is supposed to be converted to better uses. Classic chicken and egg problem, but if GO doesn’t use the fergus rail spur, CN will just let it be ripped up. That’s what makes this relatively low cost.
2: Part of why Cambridge is the way it is - is because so many people just live here and drive to the GTA. They don’t vote, they don’t get involved, and yet they still need infrastructure. Cambridge is the biggest city in Ontario without a single link and I’m happy someone is spending some money to resolve it, instead of just being really shitty and rude like some of our illustrious KW neighbours.
3: The Milton line is the real ideal option and yet we still live in a place where CP Rail has more power than the government, so I understand the sad lack of ambition here.
The only hope is that the Hespeler Rd secondary plan actually does lead to new growth and the replacement of a car sewer with a place for humans - but it needs buy in from the city and region and province to do it over decades…
2: Part of why Cambridge is the way it is - is because so many people just live here and drive to the GTA. They don’t vote, they don’t get involved, and yet they still need infrastructure. Cambridge is the biggest city in Ontario without a single link and I’m happy someone is spending some money to resolve it, instead of just being really shitty and rude like some of our illustrious KW neighbours.
3: The Milton line is the real ideal option and yet we still live in a place where CP Rail has more power than the government, so I understand the sad lack of ambition here.
The only hope is that the Hespeler Rd secondary plan actually does lead to new growth and the replacement of a car sewer with a place for humans - but it needs buy in from the city and region and province to do it over decades…
local cambridge weirdo