12-07-2014, 07:50 PM
(12-07-2014, 06:23 PM)BuildingScout Wrote:(12-07-2014, 05:09 PM)willow Wrote: Is it simply that stopping in Guelph would slow down the KW-Toronto segment too much? Speeds of 300km/h can be reached in 4.5 minutes and less time is required to brake. If boarding takes a couple minutes, this would add under 10 minutes to the trip. Would it be practical if only half of the trains stopped in Guelph with the rest being express between KW and Toronto?
If we go by how it works in Germany, we would have both a London-KW-Union Station express and a London-KW-Guelph-Pearson-Union Station run taking slightly longer. IMHO we could easily see 50-60K trips a day on that corridor. Something like 5Kx2 between London and KW, 5Kx2 KW-Guelph, 10Kx2 KW-Toronto, 5Kx2 Toronto-KW and 10K people going to Pearson, provided that the train is sufficiently faster than driving. If this sounds too high just keep in mind that the Shinkasen moves 800,000 people a day.
It's disappointing that the "Moving Ontario Forward" plan has the conceptual alignment bypassing Guelph entirely with a new line detouring to the south of the city. This would kill any chance of later implementing a non-express stop without rebuilding the line through the city. However this plan is from before Windsor was included, so maybe that conceptual alignment could be reconsidered.