12-11-2014, 05:15 PM
(12-11-2014, 03:38 PM)MidTowner Wrote: Thank you for the link to that post; that makes me more than a little excited to read that. I've been very sceptical about HSR since it was "announced" during the election, but what he says makes a lot of sense, and he's not wrong to characterize HSR as an "increment" to what is already happening on the Kitchener-Toronto corridor. That's a useful way of framing it.
I guess it depends on progress of electrification, and whether/when Kitchener is given increased Go service to build and demonstrate demand.
Maybe I'm being overly optimistic here, but I always felt that the HSR had a somewhat higher ring of truth coefficient as compared to say, the numerous empty promises of highway 7 to Guelph.
Not to say it will happen very soon, just saying that it wasn't as much pie in the sky as the highway 7 promise was in the 1990 or 1995 elections.