Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[jeffster]

Nobody's suggesting we ignore that need, but dismissing an LRT line as "not suitable" because it doesn't fit every use case.  Yes, an LRT won't work for everybody, but right now the choices of Guelph to KW is 1) Drive it.  That's it. No other option. 

Not quite.  There is GO.  Limited schedule, but it does exist.

Given the cost of LRT infrastucture (and the lack of population in between the two cities that might also be able to use it), a subsidized (express?) bus with good service would make the best start.  Ideally align stops with local transit in both cities.  Of course this is just my opinion.

Longer term, when we have all-day GO service, things will look different anyway, and we should re-evaluate.

I wonder though, what the cost of an LRT out to Guelph would be, if they used the existing infrastructure? How much of the LRT cost has been studies and reworking the "piping" and electrical so that if some road work needs to be done (burst pipe in the winter most likely) it wouldn't affect the LRT. The LRT itself is being built not cheaply, something that you might be able to do out to Guelph.

Would be be a simple matter of laying down tracks by the current route, or twinning them?