GO Transit

[ac3r]

Why does Cambridge need a GO Train connection? They barely want the LRT. They try to shoot down every new development in the city. With such little development, it doesn't seem like there'd be a lot of riders...I mean, how many people from Cambridge are regularly travelling to anywhere in the GTA on a daily basis (maybe they go to Guelph, but to build an entire train for that...?) It seems like the last place to consider a separate GO Train line...especially when the one to Kitchener sucks and we are planning on spending 100 million on a new train station already. It makes more sense to me to just get the Kitchener GO line that offers two way all day service, then have the LRT be the link for people going from Cambridge to the train station (and to whatever destination they have on the GO Train).

It would be a long commute to take the ION from Downtown Cambridge to Kitchener and then catch a 2-hour train to Toronto. You aren't going to get anybody out of their cars that way.

True...but two GO Trains coming into Waterloo Region? Seems like a dream when we can barely get them to offer us 1 consistent service in Kitchener that can get us to Toronto 7 days a week all throughout the day.

It's great their planning this but I would imagine the costs would mean this would not happen for a loooong time. I wonder how much of this has been actual long term planning, or if it's just because there is an upcoming election that the OPC desperately needs to win?