02-22-2024, 11:45 AM
(02-22-2024, 11:13 AM)cherrypark Wrote:(02-21-2024, 05:22 PM)KevinL Wrote: The Milton line issue is, I understand, mostly intransigence from CP. Which is capable of being overcome, but I can see how this is considered an easier approach.
That and this line from Guelph just needs to be updated vs. doubling track on the rest of the stretch from Milton. Overcoming CP intransigence also likely means more cost, even if one would see it as a logical link passing Galt.
I also don't know enough about the other business case components, but you could imagine that all the work done to open up the Kitchener line would be seen as the better option to pile more trains through for this extra service than sending more trains on the Milton line. Already a lot of trips that terminate in Mount Pleasant / Georgetown.
You know, I go back and forth on this one, but really (and the data is somewhere) we should build for the trips that are most common. Probably that is Cambridge <-> Guelph.
That being said, I really wish we would just do a damn bus like...yesterday. Compared with building a train, it would be trivially easy and then we could start building ridership to justify the investment of a train.