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It's good news for folks here in the Region, too- the improvements should cut trip times, and are steps towards eventual all-day two-way service.
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Is that the section that's the limiting factor for two-way all-day GO service for KW?
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Mt Pleasant -> Bramlea is the CN owned section.
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Timio- yes, Georgetown to Bramalea is the CN-owned section. But Metrolinx last year reached a deal with CN to build a new freight line in that section for CN traffic.
I'd be curious to find out how much travel times would be reduced by the work announced today.
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03-31-2017, 04:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-31-2017, 04:12 PM by Drake.)
Would there be any advantage to bypassing Guelph to speed up the overall route?
There are plans to build a Breslau GO station and Acton has a GO stop. That is about a 10-15 minute drive from the Guelph location to these areas.
It seems to me that whenever I ride that train one of the slowest sections is the crawl into and out of Guelph.
The plans for the Hi Speed "magic" train that we like to dream about has bypassed Guelph. Would there be a political appetite to do it with GO as well?
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I think its a lot harder to bypass Guelph with GO.
It's more of a commuter system than the "hi speed" train. So its more important to have local cities on the route. And of course, they already have it, so its harder to take something away.
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You can have high speed with lots of stops. You just have to have good acceleration - that's how the Shinkansen does it. It'll never be ideal with lumbering diesel engines. Electrification (and proper EMU selection) is the key.
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I think Guelph has problems other than just as a stop, right? Like having a lot of at grade crossings that they'll be unable to remove cheaply?