(04-30-2021, 01:16 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(04-30-2021, 01:10 PM)ac3r Wrote: On one hand: good news. On the other hand: I'll believe it when I'm sitting on a train in the middle of the day, until then, this sounds like 2022 election pandering rather than any serious plans. We've been hearing "soon" for far too long.
This is exactly how I feel.
The confusion at silver junction just reinforces that. And I haven't heard CN weigh in on it at all yet. The Liberals had a memorandum of understanding or something like that...we've heard nothing on this new plan.
I must confess to some skepticism around the need for a grade separation at Silver. Just how many trains are there on the other line anyway, and just how long does it take the signals and switches to operate? Are we sure the switches can’t just be hooked up so they can change less than 5 minutes after a train has gone through? The main line is only 2 tracks — so trains from the Kitchener line only have to cross over at most one track to get where they are going. It’s not like trying to get from the southernmost track of the Lakeshore line into the northernmost track at Union Station.
But yeah, this is just the usual election pandering. Watch for Highway 7 to ramp up too in the next year or so. By the way, how’s that high speed rail study going? You know, the 320km/h one the Liberals were cooking up?