CAMBRIDGE - Mayor Doug Craig is weary of waiting for the province to restore passenger train service between Cambridge and Toronto.

"I am not happy with the fact we've been sitting for 15 years waiting for GO train," Craig said during a wide-ranging 35-minute state-of-the-city address at Galt Country Club on Thursday morning. "We are not on anybody's radar. We have to get back on the radar."

And that's a high-speed priority for Cambridge's fifth-term mayor.

Two years ago, Craig felt like the city's long-held GO train hopes were clearly on the province's tracking system. Everybody was on board, Craig said then.

Now, Craig figures a political jump-start is required.

It's been 46 years since Canadian Pacific dropped Galt from its Windsor-to-Toronto run. It's been 24 years since then-Cambridge MPP Mike Farnan held his infamous "Not now" news conference to tell city officials the GO train wasn't coming.

Meanwhile, Kitchener-to-Toronto GO trains became reality in 2011 along a Canadian National line to the north. Cambridge's GO train hopes remain stalled at the station.

"We need to - politically as a council, along with the mayor of Milton and Mayor (Bonnie) Crombie from Mississauga - up the ante in terms of political togetherness," Craig told a crowd that included Regional Chair Ken Seiling and the other six regional mayors.

An improved line that can carry more trains is required for the busy stretch between Milton and Toronto. Capacity is plentiful on the CP line between Cambridge and Milton.

"That line sees four to five trains a day," Craig said. "So there's lots of capacity. Capacity is not an issue. The issue is getting the train there."

And Craig, with a representative of Cambridge MPP Kathryn McGarry listening on Thursday, outlined a proposal to do just that.

He'll be asking the provincial government for a little pilot project.

Take one of seven trains starting in Milton each morning and start in Cambridge and do the same for the evening run. Have one train end in Cambridge.

"Two trains. Pilot project. That doesn't, in fact, upset anybody," said Craig, adding that Kitchener and Cambridge people are already driving to Milton for GO train service.

"I think it can easily be done."

And if that idea doesn't gain any traction, Craig has another suggestion.

A sub-track runs from BWXT Canada on Coronation Boulevard, through Hespeler and connects to the Guelph junction as part of the CN line that carries Kitchener passengers to Toronto. It's about 13 kilometres from BWXT to the junction. It's also 13 kilometres from Kitchener to the junction, he pointed out.

"It's the same distance," Craig said.

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"So we need the provincial government to look at this other line because the CN line does have extra benefits, eventually stopping at the Pearson transportation hub that's being proposed, and then on to Union Station."

Craig wants the province to know there is more than one way to make Cambridge's decades-old GO train ambitions a reality.

"There are two options. And we need to start talking about it."