Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[Bytor]

Has 2WAD stalled? They are making progress on grade separation at the Silver Junction which is what is limiting further frequencies to the best of my knowledge.

Pretty much, for the past 4 years. Beyond a couple of inconvenient middle of teh day trips and minor, incremental speed improvements due to bringing the tracks back into a (sort of) state of good repair, nothing much has been done on the Kitchener line outside of Toronto proper.

In December 2018, anout 6 months after the election, then Transport Minister David Yurek told us to wait for "12 to 18 months" for some big news. But that never materialised.

The Big issue for #2WADGO to Kitchener is the bottleneck between Bramalea and Georgetown where there simply aren't enough tracks to accommodate both hourly or better service to Kitchener and all the freight that passes through there. The Wynne government was in talks with CN for a bypass link from Bramalea down to Milton, and CN had reportedly given an unofficial "OK" after confirming that their signalling equipment would work in the hydro corridor, but the Ford government killed that off, claiming that they would work with CN to make #2WADGO happen sooner than the Wynne Liberals had promised.

Since then the Ford government has sometimes alluded to getting permission from CN to build extra tracks in the B/G section and reduce contention. Other times they alluded to simply cooperating more closely on scheduling to make it happen. However, there have not been any announcements bout either, no contracts (not even any RFQs) to build the extra tracks necessary through that bottleneck to makes #2WADGO as promised actually happen.