[crs1026]

This seems a bit dependent on living close to YTZ. You'd be closer to 2 hrs if you started at Union and weren't walking distance.

The math needs to be for a hypothetical business traveler (the highest yielding pax). So from Bay and Adelaide basically.

And the results may also be skewed if one factors in travel to business locations that are beyond the King-Bay core… Yonge/Bloor, University Hospital Network, Eglinton/Yonge, etc etc

- Paul

 

[micheal_can]

Travel times should be compared entrance to entrance. So,the entrance to a station to the entrance to the other station, or the entrance to an airport to the entrance to the other airport. Who care about moving time when planning your day?

 

[rbt]

This seems a bit dependent on living close to YTZ. You'd be closer to 2 hrs if you started at Union and weren't walking distance.

Absolutely. My intention was to show the previously provided 75 minute Toronto to Ottawa time was not realistic as even under very close to ideal circumstances the best I managed was 90 minutes; and odds were pretty high on missing that specific flight.

 

[nfitz]

This seems a bit dependent on living close to YTZ. You'd be closer to 2 hrs if you started at Union and weren't walking distance.

The express shuttle bus from Union to Eireann Quay isn't that slow.

Personally from out in the east end, we use taxis most of the time.

 

[evandyk]

A trip of 450 km is rarely going to be quicker taking a train vs flying, even with the time it takes to go to the airport and get through security. HSR could make it competitive, but a slow old Via will never. You take the train because it's more comfortable and you spend more time sitting in your seat and less time going through security and walking to the gate etc.

 

[Bordercollie]

Something I don't get about the venture luggage racks is that there are no nets.

I thought that after the Burlington accident TSB required VIA to put nets in the baggage areas to prevent stuff from flying all over the place.

 

[drum118]

A trip of 450 km is rarely going to be quicker taking a train vs flying, even with the time it takes to go to the airport and get through security. HSR could make it competitive, but a slow old Via will never. You take the train because it's more comfortable and you spend more time sitting in your seat and less time going through security and walking to the gate etc.

Unless trains are doing 250-300+ km/hr, it come a saw off for trains doing 200km. When traveling in Europe, I look at the travel time between X and Y and compare it to airplane travel time that it is faster to fly than take the train. Overnight trains are totally off my radar after 2 bad experience where I lost haft a day waiting for a new locomotive to replace a dead one with no water or lights.

I will drive to Ottawa and Montral than fly or take the train to them.