09-23-2023, 05:20 AM
(09-22-2023, 10:18 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(09-22-2023, 12:56 PM)ac3r Wrote: It makes absolutely no sense to run a GO train all the way to London anyway. Even for commuters going between London and Waterloo Region it is still over a 2 hour long trip which nobody in their right mind would do on a regular basis. And to get to Toronto it's like what...4.5 hours? That's just one way. Very few people are willing to waste that much time.
I don't really get why they even tried to pilot this. Seems like a waste of money that could have been better spent improving other aspects of GO Transit.
1h36 from Kitchener to Union Station on what I would call a "semi-express" train. Don't know what the trip length is from London, but it'll be long for any kind of a daily commute.
The commute from London to Kitchener was...not great, but certainly the type of commute that GO transit would support, however, the timing was bad...it arrived in KW way too early for commuters.
And if they wanted to serve London->Toronto, the Via mainline is much faster, and it would be an extension of the trains to Aldershot.
As for what they're thinking...at best, blindly idioticallly Toronto centric, at worst, intentionally bad with the goal of killing the idea, and frankly, I have trouble giving the benefit of the doubt here...despite Hanlon's Razor, a GO BUS would have been faster since the London->KW tracks are well...lets just say...a century out of date. So it takes a ridiculous level of apathy and ignorance to decide to implement that train instead of literally any other option. Hence, I strongly believe it was intentionally bad.
That being said, it was at least useful to me once...sadly, when we visit at Christmas I'm going to have to find another way from KW to London.