GO Transit

[westwardloo]

Ok, I guess myself and many others will just drive to Toronto then. Personally I live in the country so bus is not an option, but If I lived in the edge of town with bus connection I would not and I suspect a lot of others would not take the bus 30-45 mins to get on a train. I would however take the my car 10-15 mins to then jump on the train. 

But it's not automatically 10-15 minutes.  SW Kitchener to Breslau is 20 minutes (without traffic). St Jacobs is 20 minutes. Laurelwood is 25 minutes. Baden is 25 minutes. Add 5-10 minutes for traffic, or more, and now you are in the 30-40 minute range.

Do you see that as a reasonable time to drive to a GO station?

I know people that drive 60 minutes to the burlington GO station on Saturdays in the summer to see Blue jays games all the time. 20 mins to a GO station is nothing. when I lived in Toronto I walked 15 mins to get to a subway stop. 

Personally I would love to see GO expanded into west kitchener as well. It would be a fairly good location for transit, walkers, bikers and cars to access a station near the Boardwalk. It could even spur a future redevelopment of that crapshoot of a box store plaza. 

Just because Breslau would be a Park & Ride style station doesn't mean the Region or Township couldn't plan to build a mixed use space around the station that provides retail, commercial space and housing. I think the location picked for the Breslau GO also has the potential to have trails built to it from all the neighbourhoods in Breslau. So hopefully those residents would take bikes/ walk.