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Haven't tried recently but I heard it still takes all day to go from Kitchener -> Montreal, and it costs $200 each way. (Hearsay.)
It's a tragedy that our trains are so poor.
I think we can fix it by spending another 10 billion on new highways and additional lanes instead of funding transit. Surely, it will work this time. ~/s~
I mean Kitchener to Montreal is something close to 700-800km even if we had high speed trains that would still take about 4 hours if they average 200km/h, and they still have to make stops on the way.
But having more trains running would be a good start at least.
It needs to be cheaper and faster than driving, and it isn't even competitive on either.
I went from Guelph to Toronto recently for a baseball game with my partner. Via rail was somewhere between $40 and $50 (I forget the exact amount) per person each way. We drove instead.
In short, make transit a more viable option and maybe more people will use it.
I live in Hamilton and work in Milton, to use Go transit to get to work I would have to leave my house 3 hours before my shift, it's only 30km! What the hell is wrong with the GTA?!?
I'd love something like a Niagara - Kitchener go line and have Hamilton be a hub, really. I recently looked into commuting to Toronto for work, Yeah no, it's so bad for us non GTA but still Golden horseshoe people.
You wanted to take the Go. It is much cheaper and more convenient. The trade off is customer service and ostensibly comfort. (Though the via stock is pretty fucking old these days...) But the Via staff treat you like a human being and make an effort to solve whatever travel emergency you have encountered.
This was a Sunday and the Go train only runs Monday - Friday for us
ungh right? why can't we have basic regional transit??