08-31-2017, 03:59 PM
(08-31-2017, 03:26 PM)Coke6pk Wrote: I think it says the bypass will be 7 years out. Actually electrifying everything I don't believe is in that timeline....
Maybe. The article is not precise, which is par for the course for most news media. But it's how I read it:
Quote:Other key pieces of this project include, a new station at Breslau, upgrades to Kitchener GO and other stations, and additional track between Union Station and Mount Pleasant Go Station, 52 kilometres of track between Georgetown and Kitchener, upgraded signaling and communication system, electrification (of the track) and new electric train fleet.
Another major piece of that project is one specific part of the Kitchener corridor “The Kitchener corridor we own just about 79 per-cent of it, so we own from Georgetown to Kitchener, we own from Union Station to Bramalea but the section in between we don’t currently own, it’s CN’s and is currently one of their major freight lines,” Troughton said.
Troughton adds that as it stands right now, GO trains have to cross CN tracks and they only have permission to do that a couple times a day.
One of Metrolinx plans to take ownership of the 19km stretch that CN owns is to build a 30km bypass for freight trains.
It is estimated that the entire project should take about seven years.