(03-31-2017, 07:53 PM)darts Wrote:(03-31-2017, 04:11 PM)Drake Wrote: Would there be any advantage to bypassing Guelph to speed up the overall route?
There are plans to build a Breslau GO station and Acton has a GO stop. That is about a 10-15 minute drive from the Guelph location to these areas.
It seems to me that whenever I ride that train one of the slowest sections is the crawl into and out of Guelph.
The plans for the Hi Speed "magic" train that we like to dream about has bypassed Guelph. Would there be a political appetite to do it with GO as well?
Why bypass Guelph? They could say the same thing about the downtown Kitchener stop
Not really. The whole Toronto - Waterloo comparison to SF - Silicon Valley couldn't be made without the Kitchener stop, and that was the point of the line coming out this far. If it wasn't for Kitchener that line would arguably still end in Georgetown (or wherever it formally ended).
The Guelph area is a bottleneck to that line and if there were a bypass all the grade separation issues may be more easily resolved. I was only asking the question for discussion. Driving 10-20 minutes to a GO train station is not an unreasonable distance. If there was no Guelph, there would be that option in either direction.
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