07-05-2017, 05:48 PM
I think you could pretty quickly dismiss this idea for the grade changes required and road costs. Imagine how much everyone would love the idea of the current expansion of the 401, only all over again to fit a couple trains in the middle. You would need to be sufficiently high enough to cross Speedsville bridge, since you aren't taking out the support pillars, or you would need to expand the bridge we just paid how many tens of millions to create, in order to shift all the lanes wide enough to accommodate it at the highway grade, while needing to go low enough to get under speedsville, but high enough to rise over the 401 lanes and the Hespeler Road bridge in order to get back onto Hespeler. It sounds nice when you don't think about it, only it would further put stations in no-development areas. It's amazing, but I really don't recall there being this much opposition to the expropriation and destruction of many homes needed to widen Weber St. from Guelph to Water, and yet I would not be surprised if not even that many homes would be removed for a project worth more than 20 times as much.