02-22-2024, 12:59 PM
(02-22-2024, 12:15 PM)jeremyroman Wrote:(02-22-2024, 11:45 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: 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.
The recent addition of the GO route 17 (Waterloo-Kitchener-Guelph-Aldershot-Hamilton) last year was great, and I hope it's doing well. If so, maybe Metrolinx will consider more of that kind of non-Toronto route, like Guelph-Cambridge or even Guelph-Cambridge-Brantford (both more service to Brantford, but also connects to the VIA line there). Small up-front investment and doesn't prevent us from putting rail service on the Fergus sub at the same time or afterward.
I'm kind of hoping that the Cambridge-Guelph spur might eventually bloom into its own line. Extend it one way out to Ayr, Paris, and/or Brantford (or Hamilton, it's baffling that we don't have a KWC/Hamilton route yet), and then north out to Elora/Fergus.