King-Victoria Transit Hub

[danbrotherston]

As for our transit hub, I don't think HSR has anything to do with it's success, AD2W GO is far more influential, while I fully support HSR, the plan was not to improve the tracks between here and Toronto beyond the AD2W GO plan (which the Conservatives have also scrapped by the way).

Do you have a link for what the Conservatives have scrapped? Are you referring to track upgrades? My understanding was the the incremental changes required for AD2W GO were under way (track upgrades in the Guelph subdivision, electrification studies). All I see from googling is that they voted against passing a motion to commit to a timeline. But from the Metrolinx board meeting and town hall that I watched it seemed liked they had already approved the business case, and were completing it by doing more incremental changes to slowly increase service.

They cancelled the bypass.  I don’t believe for a second they will succeed in convincing CN to give up their freight business on the corridor, and I don’t believe that the corridor can support reliable AD2W Go and freight, but Metrolinx is welcome to prove me wrong.