High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitchener/London

[Pheidippides]

Thanks for the clarification on who owns the track between Park St in Kitchener and Main St in Georgetown.


Anyone travelling from the Bridgeport area (west, east, north) or Lexington/Eastbridge trying to get to DTK would not be served by that plan.

St Leger as a level crossing is not a viable alternative because most shunting movements also block St Leger. So then you would have diverted all the Lancaster traffic on to a narrower road that is still affected by the level crossing problem (safety issue and efficiency issue).

Park and Strange will eventually need to be grade separations if HSR becomes a reality because while correct the trains would not be travelling at high-speed at that point in their journey (EB slowing down in to station or WB accelerating to speed) there would still be increased potential for a crash and the number of interruptions would be very high throughout the day (I would assume at a 48min trip there would be at least 1 trip per hour in each direction at least 12 hours a day = 24; plus any future GO trains coming in an out of a Baden Yard).

All good thoughts that should be presented to the EA consultant.


I'll see if I can make a quick map of the traffic counts sometime today.