Connecting Southwestern Ontario Taking the Southwestern regional transportation discussion further August 2018 Connecting Southwestern Ontario Taking the Southwestern regional transportation discussion further Recognizing the critical role mobility plays in achieving Oxford’s vision of economic, community and environmental sustainability, Oxford County commissioned Greg Gormick, On Track Strategies, to develop a four-part Southwestern Ontario transportation compendium. As a body of work, the compendium outlines the key issues facing public and freight transportation, freight mobility and effi ciency across Southwestern Ontario, and poses actions that would set the stage for positive transformation. oxfordcounty.ca SouthwestLynx: SouthwestLynx: By Greg Gormick Integrated High-Performance Public Transportation for Southwestern Ontario On Track Strategies June 2018 Integrated High-Performance Public Transportation for Southwestern Ontario As the fourth and fi nal of Greg Gormick’s commissioned reports, “SouthwestLynx: An Integrated High-Performance Public Transportation for Southwestern Ontario” is the anchor report underlying the rationale for Oxford County’s commission of the entire compendium. Released in June 2018, the SouthwestLynx report presents the unquestionable viability of High Performance Rail (HPR) complemented by a fully integrated intercommunity transportation system as a logical, practical, aff ordable and deliverable public transportation solution for Southwestern Ontario. Intercommunity Transportation Community connectivity and mobility is critical to the to intercommunity busing that has occurred since vitality of small urban/rural Southwestern Ontario. 2009 and proposes to re-establish intercommunity SouthwestLynx recognizes the dramatic reduction connections across Southwestern Ontario. Georgian Bay !( Proposed Intercommunity Busing System Penetang Orillia !( !( Balsam Lake Owen Sound!( Meaford Sturgeon Lake !( Port Elgin Collingwood !( (! Lake Simcoe Angus Barrie !(Scone !( Kincardine Lake Scugog !( Alliston!( Mount Forest !( Oshawa Wingham !( (! !( Arthur Orangeville !( Lake Huron Goderich !( !(Listowel Fergus !( Brampton (! (! Toronto Guelph (! (! !( Mississauga Kitchener (! Milton Lake Ontario Stratford Cambridge !( (! (!Burlington St. Marys !( Hamilton(! St. Catharines !( (! Grimsby Niagara Falls Woodstock!( (! Brantford !( Michigan Ingersoll !( Welland !( !( !( !( (! London Sarnia Wyoming Strathroy !( !( (! Buffalo Fort Erie Simcoe!( Port Colborne St. Thomas !( !( Tillsonburg Small Urban/Rural SWO Intercommunity Bus !( Connections Thamesville Port Stanley !( Canada-USA Border Oxford County Boundary Chatham Lake St. Clair (! Lake Erie Intercity Motor Coach Detroit (! Routes 2018 (! Windsor Greyhound Megabus New York Ontario Northland Leamington Go Transit Bus - not !( all routes shown Pennsylvania 0 10 20 40 60 Kilometers ³ In partnership with municipalities, the Province of across Southwestern Ontario. This connects the Ontario and the motor coach industry, an integrated residents of small urban/rural Southwestern Ontario intercommunity transportation system can provide to the large urban centres, to each other, to work, to key transportation links between communities and healthcare services and to shopping, recreation and to the existing passenger rail corridors for residents entertainment activities. 2 Passenger Rail SouthwestLynx proposes a High Performance Rail (HPR) solution that can be accommodated within the existing rail corridors serving Southwestern Ontario. Proposed High Performance Rail (HPR) Corridors ! !( Newmarket !(! Aurora ! !( !(Whitchurch-Stouffville (! !(! King City Bowmanville Orangeville ! ! ! !( Whitby !( !( ! ! Wingham Caledon !( ! !( ! (! Richmond Hill !( Markham!( Ajax !( Oshawa !( ! (! ! !( ! !( Vaughan!( !( Pickering(! (! ! !( !( (!!( !( !( !( !( Goderich Toronto - !( !( CN - Halton !( !( Subdivision Brampton(!!( !( !( Kitchener/Stratford/St Marys (! Toronto !( !( !(! Halton!( Hills !( P Huron East ! !( !( !( Clinton ! ! Mississauga !( !( Goderich-Exeter Railway !( !( !( !( !!( 2 Guelph !( !( ! Current 15Proposed Seaforth (! Milton !( !( Lake Ontario ! Oakville Bluewater CN - Guelph (! ! Waterloo ! !((! Subdivision !(! Kitchener Lake Huron (! (! !( New Hamburg Stratford ! Cambridge !( Canadian National Exeter !( !(! ! Canadian Pacific Burlington!( ! Bayview Junction ! South Huron !( (! Bayview Junction Niagara-on-the-Lake St. Marys ! ! !(! (! Hamilton (! Paris ! St. Princeton ! Stoney Creek !( Catharines Parkhill Grimsby ! Toronto - Sarnia ! Brantford !( Woodstock !(! ! Lincoln !(! Thorold !( CN - Dundas ! ! Forest (! !( ! Subdivision Niagara Falls Michigan Ingersoll !( Current1 Proposed4 !(! Toronto - Welland Niagara Sarnia London ! River ! ! (! Strathroy (! (! Brantford/Woodstock/Ingersoll (( !! (! (! (!(! !( !(! (! (! Fort Erie Dunnville ! Komoka ! Port Colborne Petrolia ! ! Tillsonburg CN - CP ! Southern Railway Inc. Woodstock - Komoka Ontario Southland Current5 15Proposed ! Simcoe Ontario Railway St. Thomas ! Aylmer ! !( Toronto - London Canadian Pacific !( (! Current7 30Proposed Toronto - Windsor !( Canadian National (! Lake Proposed St. Clair Chatham Current Two-ways Daily Trains Current4 Proposed8 !!((! Lake Erie St. Clair Windsor Beach Existing Rail Corridors !( ! ! ! VIA Rail Tecumseh Improvement Areas ! Belle River (! ! Stations Lakeshore (! Freight (! Passenger Amherstburg ! Oxford County Boundary Canada-USA Border Kingsville ! ! Leamington 05 10 20 30 40 Pennsylvania Kilometers ³ Ohio SouthwestLynx identifies five key constraint areas Subdivision and CN-Guelph Subdivision along within the existing North Mainline (Toronto - the North Mainline and Bayview Junction, the Brampton - Guelph - Kitchener - Stratford - St. Marys CN-Dundas Subdivision on the South Mainline, - London) and South Mainline (Toronto - Hamilton as well as a CN-CP Woodstock-Komoka line - Brantford - Woodstock - Ingersoll - London) rail consolidation to dramatically improve freight and corridors. SouthwestLynx then identifies specific passenger rail travel in/out and through London. improvement opportunities for the CN-Halton 3 Georgian Bay (! The SouthwestLynx Plan Penetang Orillia (! (! Balsam Lake Owen Sound(! Meaford Sturgeon Lake (! (! Collingwood Port Elgin (! Lake Simcoe Angus Barrie (!Scone (! Kincardine Lake Scugog (! Alliston(! Mount Forest (! Oshawa Wingham (! (! (! Arthur Orangeville (! Lake Huron Listowel (! Goderich (! Fergus (! Brampton(! Toronto - Kitchener/Stratford/St Marys (! Toronto Guelph !( (! (! Mississauga 2 Kitchener Lake Ontario Current 15Proposed (! Milton Cambridge Stratford (! (! !(Burlington Hamilton St. Marys (! !( Toronto - Sarnia St. Catharines (! (! Grimsby Niagara Falls Woodstock!( (! Brantford (! Michigan Ingersoll Current1 Proposed4 !( Welland (! Toronto - Brantford/Woodstock/Ingersoll (! (! (! !( London Sarnia Wyoming Strathroy (! (! (! Buffalo Fort Erie Simcoe!( Port Colborne St. Thomas !( 5 !( Tillsonburg Current 15Proposed (! Toronto - Windsor Thamesville Port Stanley (! Current Proposed Two-ways Daily Trains Current4 Proposed8 Chatham Lake St. Clair (! Toronto - London Lake Erie Detroit Existing Rail Corridors !( Small Urban/Rural SWO (! Windsor Inter-Community Bus Connections Current7 30Proposed Canada-USA Border New York Oxford County !(Leamington Boundary Pennsylvania 0 10 20 40 60 Kilometers ³ 4 Georgian Bay Penetang (! Orillia (! (! Balsam Lake Owen Sound(! Meaford Sturgeon Lake (! (! Collingwood Port Elgin (! Lake Simcoe Angus Barrie (!Scone (! Kincardine Lake Scugog (! Alliston(! Mount Forest (! Oshawa Wingham (! (! (! Arthur Orangeville (! Lake Huron Listowel (! Goderich (! Fergus (! Brampton(! Toronto - Kitchener/Stratford/St Marys (! Toronto Guelph !( (! (! Mississauga 2 Kitchener Lake Ontario Current 15Proposed (! Milton Cambridge Stratford (! (! !(Burlington Hamilton St. Marys (! !( Toronto - Sarnia St. Catharines (! (! Grimsby Niagara Falls Woodstock!( (! Brantford (! Michigan Ingersoll Current1 Proposed4 !( Welland (! Toronto - Brantford/Woodstock/Ingersoll (! (! (! !( London Sarnia Wyoming Strathroy (! (! (! Buffalo Fort Erie Simcoe!( Port Colborne St. Thomas !( 5 !( Tillsonburg Current 15Proposed (! Toronto - Windsor Thamesville Port Stanley (! Current Proposed Two-ways Daily Trains Current4 Proposed8 Chatham Lake St. Clair (! Toronto - London Lake Erie Detroit Existing Rail Corridors !( Small Urban/Rural SWO (! Windsor Inter-Community Bus Connections Current7 30Proposed Canada-USA Border New York Oxford County !(Leamington Boundary Pennsylvania 0 10 20 40 60 Kilometers ³ An Integrated Solution for Southwestern Ontario SouthwestLynx proposes a fully integrated public All of the SouthwestLynx passenger rail transportation solution that will serve the people improvements have the added benefi t of and businesses of Southwestern Ontario. As well, providing much needed freight rail enhancements because both existing rail corridors are utilized, the and capacity improvements that will serve SouthwestLynx proposal enhances the passenger Southwestern Ontario. rail opportunities to more than 1 million more people in Hamilton, Brantford and Niagara Region. Key elements of the SouthwestLynx Plan SouthwestLynx: • Practical, aff ordable and implementable alternative to High Speed Rail By Greg Gormick Integrated High-Performance Public Transportation for Southwestern Ontario On Track Strategies • Optimizes existing north and south rail corridors, proposing solutions June 2018 to key capacity constraint areas including: - CN-Halton Subdivision - CN-Guelph