by lpetrich
Queen’s Park backs plan to electrify Union Station-Pearson link - The Globe and Mail
It will be a spur off of the Georgetown Line, likely branching off between Etobicoke North and Malton, and following Hwys. 429 and 407 to the airport.
GO Transit has plans to electrify three of its seven lines:
Electric trains will eventually whiz down a new line to Pearson airport now that Queen’s Park has endorsed the first phase of an electrification plan that could cost as much as $1.8-billion over more than two decades.However, it may not be possible to electrify the line in time for the Pan Am Games in 2015, when that line is supposed to open.
In the long run, speedier electric trains are key to transforming GO Transit into an express service departing every five minutes, Metrolinx and the province say.
In the short term, endorsing any electrification could help the Liberals hang on to two vulnerable Toronto seats in this fall’s election.
It will be a spur off of the Georgetown Line, likely branching off between Etobicoke North and Malton, and following Hwys. 429 and 407 to the airport.
GO Transit has plans to electrify three of its seven lines:
- Georgetown: 1 - Etobicoke/Pearson - 2 - Brampton - 7 - Kitchener
- Lakeshore East: 3 - Oshawa - 6 - Bowmanville
- Lakeshore West: 1 - Mimico - 4 - Oakville - 5 - Hamilton