04-14-2018, 09:45 PM
(04-14-2018, 09:19 PM)Pheidippides Wrote:(04-14-2018, 02:49 PM)tomh009 Wrote: What kills this (and makes real HSR difficult, too) is the plethora of level crossings and slow segments through cities. That's expensive to fix, politically challenging and totally unglamorous -- and yet the gating factor to achieving any serious speed-up of the train service.
This is exactly why the region and city need to be reminded that projects like the current Lancaster Street Reconstruction (Victoria Street to Bridgeport Road, Design 2017 – 2019, Construction 2020) needs to be re-done as a grade separation or the chance is lost for 50 years.
Quite right. Lancaster and Bingeman are the key ones in Kitchener (St Leger could easily be closed if Lancaster were grade-separated). Sadly Bingeman was built as a level crossing.
Is grade separation being seriously considered for this project?