09-15-2021, 08:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2021, 09:19 AM by danbrotherston.)
Well, apparently rumors were true:
https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/afte...for-london
London will be getting GO service. I'm not an expert on transit planning, maybe this is a realistic plan that actually will help, but frankly, I doubt it.
The travel times are EXTREME. 4 hours to Toronto, even our pathetic intercity via trains can do MUCH better. The reason for this extremely slow train is to go through Kitchener, which is fair, lots from London may choose to come to Kitchener, BUUUUT...in that case a Toronto centric/Toronto bound commuter ONLY service makes little sense. What if I want to go to London (which I do). I literally cannot do it with this service.
Is it possibly the case this is the best they can do for very cheap, maybe. But it's pathetic...and it won't help me, or people like me, and I really doubt any Toronto bound commuters are going to sit for four hours on a train rather than drive (or just take the Via at ~2 hours).
Again, I'm not a transit planner, but a much faster service hitting the Lakeshore via Brantford would have made more sense for Toronto commuters, and a two way shuttle between KW and London would have made more sense for KW <-> London service...we get neither. This seems like more mediocre, poorly planned floundering and bad faith compromise.
Also FWIW, they're expecting about 68 total passengers on the west of KW leg. That's an awfully small number for a full size GO Train.
https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/afte...for-london
London will be getting GO service. I'm not an expert on transit planning, maybe this is a realistic plan that actually will help, but frankly, I doubt it.
The travel times are EXTREME. 4 hours to Toronto, even our pathetic intercity via trains can do MUCH better. The reason for this extremely slow train is to go through Kitchener, which is fair, lots from London may choose to come to Kitchener, BUUUUT...in that case a Toronto centric/Toronto bound commuter ONLY service makes little sense. What if I want to go to London (which I do). I literally cannot do it with this service.
Is it possibly the case this is the best they can do for very cheap, maybe. But it's pathetic...and it won't help me, or people like me, and I really doubt any Toronto bound commuters are going to sit for four hours on a train rather than drive (or just take the Via at ~2 hours).
Again, I'm not a transit planner, but a much faster service hitting the Lakeshore via Brantford would have made more sense for Toronto commuters, and a two way shuttle between KW and London would have made more sense for KW <-> London service...we get neither. This seems like more mediocre, poorly planned floundering and bad faith compromise.
Also FWIW, they're expecting about 68 total passengers on the west of KW leg. That's an awfully small number for a full size GO Train.