03-12-2021, 06:29 PM
(03-12-2021, 06:26 PM)Bytor Wrote:(03-12-2021, 04:09 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: To be honest, I had forgotten that a promise of 30 minute service had been made (is that true?); I thought the promise was for hourly service, and I’m not expecting anything better than every 2 hours for quite some time.
Kitchener line business case from November 2019.
(03-12-2021, 04:09 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Speed of operation is also an issue; with track improvements, the time between Kitchener and Guelph or Guelph and Georgetown should each be well under 30 minutes meaning that hourly service (but ignoring freight, which is unrealistic) should be achievable without twinning. Of course the closer the schedule gets to the theoretical maximum the worse the impact of any problems, but still we’re used to ridiculously slow operation on this line so distances seem to be of greater duration than they should be.
When Metrolinx was still acting like twinning the track all the way to Kitchener, then they were indicating that trackway remediation would be done to increase the speed limits. The "no we're not going to twin" that has come out since the Tories took over has been accompanied by a lack of talk about remediation.
I believe they have been doing track improvements...there are a few corridors which are hard to fix, like right outside the Guelph station where it runs a few meters from homes, but other areas have been improved and we have seen a resulting improvement in travel times.