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High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitchener/London
(05-21-2017, 11:29 AM)DHLawrence Wrote: Looking at it on Street View, bulldozing the south side would be less invasive. Hope they can move a couple of them.

Yes, it looks like at most you might possibly have to take the five houses on the south side of Kent St. between Glasgow and Dublin. Everything else is accessible from other roads.

Also, not that much space should be needed — even if HSR runs through there, this particular bit in no way needs the full HSR treatment. That close to the station, trains will never go much faster than they do now — I mean, even if all the level crossings were closed and a 50m wide right-of-way cleared, maximum acceleration simply wouldn’t allow very fast trains in that area. I don’t even see a big issue with the crossings, although the ones at Dublin and at Glasgow are a bit strange so getting rid of them might be nice.

After reviewing the aerial photo again, I actually am not at all clear why people are so worried about this location. If it were further from the station I would understand — we can’t have numerous locations where trains have to crawl between stations where they should be flying. In fact, that is precisely the problem with the GO train now — two hours from Kitchener to Toronto is really very poor.
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RE: High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitchener/London - by ijmorlan - 05-21-2017, 12:25 PM

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