A long-proposed hovercraft route connecting Toronto with Niagara Region appears to still have some life, with the first high-speed vessels now expe...
A long-proposed hovercraft route connecting Toronto with Niagara Region appears to still have some life, with the first high-speed vessels now expected to shuttle passengers across Lake Ontario as early as 2025.However, the project has shown some signs of life this summer, and Hoverlink now claims to be pushing forward with the ambitious commuter service.
According to Hoverlink, the service"will transport people across Lake Ontario in under 30 minutes, a journey that can take up to three hours by car or bus, and up to two hours by train," linking"two of Ontario's most significant economic and tourist regions." In 1998, then Ontario tourism minister Al Palladini was aboard the maiden voyage of a hydrofoil service across the lake, which was struck by a 2.5-metre wave. So, yeah, that didn't work.with a catamaran ferry route. While this route did indeed enter passenger service in 2004, it suffered funding challenges and interruptions that led to its ultimate demise by 2006.to link Niagara-on-the-Lake and Port Dalhousie to Toronto.
However, the Hoverlink scheme is far from dead, and following an agreement between the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation that leases land to the hovercraft operator, the new service is now targeting launches in late 2025 and early to mid-2026.
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