03-19-2021, 12:30 PM
(03-19-2021, 11:02 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(03-19-2021, 09:44 AM)Bytor Wrote: Also, I cannot really see this happening before 2035, or a few years after whenever ION Stage 2 gets built, and certainly not before 2025. This short-run service would be highly dependent upon both #2WADGO between Kitchener and Toronto and on good transit connection (a.k.a. LRT) to the Cambridge end and probably would not have enough passengers to make it economically viable until those two things are in place.
I don't think it makes sense to do this in 2035. If we're waiting 15 years, we should do the right thing and expand the Milton line. The only reason to re-activate the track and go through Guelph to my mind is to do it quickly.
CP is orders of magnitude more obstinate than CN ever was with the Kitchener Line. If you want to wait for that, you'll be waiting far beyond 2035.
The Galt Subdivision is the only line CP has going west from Toronto where CN had 2, so no wonder CP doesn't want to sell it off. Doing so would split their North American network into two disconnected halves, or at the every least, force them to go up through the Dakotas and around Lake Superior to get anything from US midwest or southern Missiissippi River to anywhere east of Toronto.
The only workable solution there requires Metrolinx building brand new track, and a lot of land appropriation because th right of way is not always wide enough to add two more tracks on to. Though it's likely that CP would not allow sharing the ROW like that.