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Given the cost (roughly $4B), consider that we could have built this many times over with the waste of money the Liberals have spent on all sorts of things. For example, $2B loan to Telesat that has no product or business but does have Mark Carney as a "good friend" of Telesat.
Um... Quebec City? DOGE the Quebec Patronage.Trudeau announces plans for high-speed rail network in Toronto-Quebec City corridor
A new, high-speed rail network between Toronto and Quebec City will be a “game changer” for Canadian commuters, cutting travel times from Ontario’s largest city to Montreal to three hours, the prime minister says.
Does he not know he's left the building?
I look at a couple of things:
When you put it this way, going to windsor would probably add Hamilton and London as well but then we'd be basically looking at an Ontario express line as 80% of it would be Ontario with Montreal at the end as a bonus 1hr
Hamilton, Kitchener/Waterloo, London are already on the rail corridor.When you put it this way, going to windsor would probably add Hamilton and London as well but then we'd be basically looking at an Ontario express line as 80% of it would be Ontario with Montreal at the end as a bonus 1hr
I do see how much of a tourist trap it could be to add a connection to the states (Windsor) but then on the other hand if you want to feel like you went somewhere different, you can't beat Old Quebec city and the fortress which feels like little Europe. But i'm truly biased.
EDIT) just thought about all the quality skiing i could get, hop on the train friday evening, ski sat and sun and come back without having to worry about being exhausted on the drive back!
High speed rail only works with huge distances between stops. Politicians are incapable of avoiding pandering. By the time it's built, it will be 10B plus and have so many stops that high speed doesn't matter. Stops need to be at least 300 km apart otherwise you spend much of your time accelerating, decelerating and stopped. You get the headline speed for a little in the middle but average speed plummets to less than a car (and price will be at least double via which is already expensive enough that few use it).
That would mean Windsor (1.5h)Toronto (2.5h) Montreal... (and 1.5h forpotentially quebec)
Passing thru Peterboro and Ottawa doesnt' make sense. It would add about an hour to the Montreal-Toronto segment, and require a lot more complicated construction.
Exactly. The project is doomed. Even if you did Windsor, Toronto, Peterboro,Ottawa,Montreal, Quebec City, If you got on in windsor, that is about 1.5 hours not at top speed. (and much of that time stopped). It's about a 12 hour drive or 16 hours on via (for $400-700 one way) now. It would be at least 7 hours on the high speed train and probably in the ballpark of $1000-1500 return per seat. Flight is 5.5 hours (including a layover in toronto) plus time at airport for $350 return. So the absolute best case scenario with few stops is the same speed as a flight and triple the cost. By the time politicians add more stops and rolling stock/operating company sucks, as well as most people needing to spend an hour or more getting to the departure station, it will be much longer. The whole idea is doomed from the beginning and has zero possibility of success. As a start, we should kill Via now. It's a loser and if this high speed is built, VIA will lose even faster.
Nowhere near JT, that's for sure.
He's building nothing. He is spending money on projects that will never happen.
