Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph

[MidTowner]

Guelph transit is horrible. I took it once. My commute (driving) from downtown Kitchener (Kaufman Lofts) to the industrial park on the South end (where Sleeman's is) was 25 minutes. The Guelph bus took almost an hour just from downtown Guelph to get to my office, and it only ran something like once per hour. I can't even imagine how long it would take if you factored in an inter-city train ride as well as transit connections inside Kitchener.

I've only taken Guelph Transit a handful of times, and not for a while, but I don't think it's that bad. You're talking about access  to an industrial park on the very outskirts of town. That situation is not likely to support good transit, and transit access to industrial parks in Waterloo Region isn't much better. The 34 to Bingeman's is the one I'm most familiar with- it's now a little worse than half-hourly, with no midday service. That's not so good, either, but it's not so much an indictment of GRT as the form of the development it's trying to serve.

In denser parts of the city, and especially routes serving students, Guelph Transit is much better, just as is true for GRT.

In any case, I think ijmorlan is right that transit service would be the better investment. We know that this highway will eventually cause enough induced demand to congest it, and create more sprawl. But I don't think a big transit project connecting the two cities would find the support that this highway does (that's a big understatement).