03-19-2021, 03:19 PM
(03-19-2021, 12:46 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(03-19-2021, 12:30 PM)Bytor Wrote: 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.
If I recall the same right of way that was going to be used to bypass the CN line will also bypass the CP line. And I don't think CN will play ball with closing their main freight line either.
While there was some talk about the bypass only going as far as Meadowvale and having CN trains share the CP line to Milton, all the maps from the Province and Metrolinx always included the full distance of Bramalea Rd. to Milton. Early on as just a straight line meant to indicate general location, and later ones following a combination of the 407 and the hydro corridor beside it.
I do not believe there was any serious talk of using it as a CP bypass to gain control of the Milton Line as that requires diverting CP traffic up to Woodbridge and down the CN tracks to Bramalea to get to the bypass. Given the freight volumes both those companies run through there, just doing that minimum distance of Bramalea to Meadowvale would probably be unworkable as the shared sections on either end wouldn't have the capacity to handle both sets of traffic.