12-17-2018, 03:26 PM
(12-17-2018, 03:19 PM)Section ThirtyOne Wrote:(12-17-2018, 03:14 PM)neonjoe Wrote: Today's announcement summed up is that beginning in January there will be one additional trip per day extended to Kitchener.
https://news.ontario.ca/mto/en/2018/12/o...-line.html
Ugh, I guess this is better than nothing but I was hoping for more.
Still concerning is the 2h+ trip time.
5 trips per day rather than 4 is better in some sense, but I think we’re at the point where fixing the travel time is more important than increasing the number of trips. Right now a single train could do 3 round trips in 12 hours; cutting the single-trip time to 1:30 from 2:00 would allow the same train to do 4 round trips in 12 hours for the same staffing and maintenance costs. If we’re going to have all-day service, the travel time really needs to come down, both in order to make it affordable to run and to make it attractive enough to be worth running.