12-07-2014, 07:59 PM
(12-07-2014, 07:50 PM)willow Wrote:(12-07-2014, 06:23 PM)BuildingScout Wrote: If we go by how it works in Germany, we would have both a London-KW-Union Station express and a London-KW-Guelph-Pearson-Union Station run taking slightly longer. IMHO we could easily see 50-60K trips a day on that corridor. Something like 5Kx2 between London and KW, 5Kx2 KW-Guelph, 10Kx2 KW-Toronto, 5Kx2 Toronto-KW and 10K people going to Pearson, provided that the train is sufficiently faster than driving. If this sounds too high just keep in mind that the Shinkasen moves 800,000 people a day.
It's disappointing that the "Moving Ontario Forward" plan has the conceptual alignment bypassing Guelph entirely with a new line detouring to the south of the city. This would kill any chance of later implementing a non-express stop without rebuilding the line through the city. However this plan is from before Windsor was included, so maybe that conceptual alignment could be reconsidered.
Not sure I follow. Could non-express trains not just use the existing ROW?