I'd be down for trains to Wellesley and similar...assuming they didn't cost anything lol.
I mean a big reason why Cambridg is the way it is, is because there has not yet been a catalyst to change it. But a GO train isn't going to be nor should be the catalyst that results in Cambridge changing its urban fabric. The region needs to focus on getting the LRT line to Cambridge started as soon as possible so that it can actually feel connected to the rest of the region. Metrolinx then needs to speedrun the completion of our new train station and all day service so we have just 1 reliable link to cities eastbound of us. Perhaps at that point, when the LRT is operational development in Cambridge starts to boom, the population grows and densifies, the economy becomes more dynamic and so on, then it would make sense to have a spur that went to Cambridge. It just seems like a huge misallocation of resources to consider doing this now (not that it would ever happen for decades to come, since we know how slow Metrolinx works).
I mean a big reason why Cambridg is the way it is, is because there has not yet been a catalyst to change it. But a GO train isn't going to be nor should be the catalyst that results in Cambridge changing its urban fabric. The region needs to focus on getting the LRT line to Cambridge started as soon as possible so that it can actually feel connected to the rest of the region. Metrolinx then needs to speedrun the completion of our new train station and all day service so we have just 1 reliable link to cities eastbound of us. Perhaps at that point, when the LRT is operational development in Cambridge starts to boom, the population grows and densifies, the economy becomes more dynamic and so on, then it would make sense to have a spur that went to Cambridge. It just seems like a huge misallocation of resources to consider doing this now (not that it would ever happen for decades to come, since we know how slow Metrolinx works).