One of the simple pleasures of this summer has been attending my 11-year-old granddaughter’s softball games. It’s also given me an uneasy sense of where transportation in London may be headed.

Although the girl’s away games took place on diamonds as scattered as Glanworth and Lucan, her home contests were at Stronach Recreation Centre. Game time: 6:30 p.m. I needed to leave home in Westmount at the tail end of rush hour.

For more than a decade, I commuted by car to a job at Conestoga College’s Doon campus in Kitchener. A one-way trip took, reliably, 65 minutes, door to door. The 15-kilometre trip to Stronach took 35.

In other words, it took more than half an hour to travel by car from London to London. My public transit options were between 65 and 95 minutes each way, depending on the r

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