GO Transit

[danbrotherston]

Man ~4.5hrs LON to UNION is wild.

And I'm guessing it cost at least $50 round trip? (If KIT to UNION alone is ~$33).

In other words, cheaper to about equal to rent a little compact car in the weekdays and spend on gas and spend at least one hour less each way on the road.

Once you get to 2+ people sharing the cost then it becomes a no brainer.

If I recall it wasn’t that expensive. But yeah, I said it at the time, it’s pretty clear it was designed to fail. A real option would have either taken the route through Hamilton that Via rail uses for most trains 2.5hrs for via, (at least a rational time) or would have been timed for a London to Stratford/KW commute rather than a Toronto commute. The fact it took the slow route and also was timed to arrive in Toronto around 9 made the intentionality of the failure clear. 

That being said I did actually ride it. From KW to London once. The evening time wasn’t entirely unreasonable, it wasn’t worker focused but I took it in the evening after dinner with friends and it was fine. GO trains are much more convenient than Via rail trains.