Another thing. You're concerned about cost? The average car owner drives 20,000 to 25,000km in a year and spends about $8,000 on maintaining their car (gas, service checks, etc…). A regular commuter to Toronto at 250 round trips per year will be putting on 50,000km just doing that alone (no extras), so they are spending up to possibly $16k on their car every year. So that's $64 dollars per trip, plus four hours of being alternately bored & frustrated in traffic.

Rail scales really well. Not just more capacity than busses but better, too. For every 80 riders you need to add a new bus with a new driver plus fuel so the scaling is a fairly shallow curve. But one locomotive and engineer can handle up to 12 of those 360 passenger bi-level coaches that GO uses. That's a lot of people to spread costs over. A $3M locomotive and a $3M coach amortised over 10 years plus an engineer's salary of $100k, 1 round trip per day 25% full works out to $7.78 per trip. With 12 cars 25% full it goes down to $3.70. Except for mechanics and diesel fuel or electricity, pretty much everything else is either a fixed cost amortised out over 25-50 years (rails & stations) and spread over multiple trains, or staffing costs spread out across the entire system. By now I'm sure you get my point about scaling that we're highly unlikely to be talking about the nearly 200% price increase you mentioned previously.