03-20-2024, 05:33 PM
(03-20-2024, 09:01 AM)SF22 Wrote:I would be upset if they took away the Cambridge to Paris Trail. Cycling from Kitchener to Paris is one of my favourite trips. With the connecting trails, you can go through Brantford to Port Dover or Hamilton.(03-19-2024, 10:20 PM)nms Wrote: If they can pull this off, it could be a good case study for how to build other secondary rail connections to the main, 12-car train, GO train line. How many other communities along the various GO routes have underused or abandoned rail-spurs that could be used as feeders into the network? What if something similar was used to shuttle people from New Hamburg, Baden, (and heck even Shakespeare) to the Kitchener terminus? And since Milton was mentioned, something could be run between Milton and Georgetown too.
On the other hand, if they want to start smaller, how about a north-south GO bus route that connects Brantford, Cambridge and Guelph? GO could also add a triangular route that did a Cambridge-Hamilton-Brantford loop.
I love drawing lines on maps.
I know it would cost an absolute fortune, but imagine if we could buy up the land to build an entirely NEW RAIL LINE from Cambridge to Hamilton. You could use part of the old Paris Rail Trail to get up into Galt downtown, and maybe tunnel the train for the last kilometre in to hook up underneath of the LRT terminus, much like the Hamilton Centre station tunnels to the northwest. And then loop over and stretch it alongside old highway 8 until you can hook into an existing CN rail line to swing you into Hamilton downtown. It would probably be 45km from end-to-end, most of it new rail except for anything reused in Hamilton.
I hope someone in government dares to dream big, one of these days.