They can't move away from Hunter St. without pissing alot of people off, including me. I moved to the GO station's backyard for a reason. There's also everyone who bought in the Chateau Royale and commutes, as well as homeowners in Durand and Corktown. The Piggott building and the one next to it are also walking distance to Hunter. Around the CN tracks, there's really nothing comparable.
They invested millions to switch to Hunter St. in the first place, why, to allow for more service. That never really happened. They added one train. GO is allowed 20 trains a day through the tunnel, all they have to do is build the storage yard and stop wasting their tunnel passes running deadheads back to Toronto.
The James North station makes perfect sense for the time, as a VIA station. Addidtional GO trains could run there until they complete the Hunter St. tunnel and run proper GO service there. It makes way less sense to have GO buses and trains at different stations and require a 25 minute walk just to transfer on the same system. Very few people if any would arrive in Hamilton on a GO train to transfer to a VIA train to Niagara. They would be on VIA in the first place.
As for being too close to Aldershot, that's simple. Niagara trains would not stop at Aldershot. Windsor trains would still use it, because it's as close to Hamilton as they can get. If they ever get enough demand to run trains from Niagara through to Windsor, they would stop in Hamilton, connecting us to the corridor without the pain in the ass trip to Aldershot.
Last edited by Jon Dalton; Nov 27, 2007 at 8:59 PM.
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