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Please. It could cost $300B by the time it’s built but we need this. I think we can put 21st century investment in what’s currently an early 20th century system.
I’ll be dead in 2078 when it will be announced for the 134th time, at the cost of 860 billions$
I’ll tell you then
This would save me some time travelling between Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto for work, as I absolutely hate travelling by plane.
I hate when they compare us to Europe though. Maybe Toronto and Quebec are different since they are older but our cities are generally more sprawled with fewer people then Europe.
Not in the Quebec-Windsor corridor. There’s enough people, and the density is high enough for rail to be useful.
The environmental benefits are great and all, but you’ll get downtown to downtown faster and cheaper than car or train with high speed rail. Like, get off work in downtown Toronto, eat on the train, and watch a Sens game at 7 at LeBreton Flats, and back home for midnight sort of speed.
That is 100% part of our problems with housing, road maintaince and municipal budgeting. We don’t have to sprawl just because we have massive amounts of land, we can also build denser cities, transit oriented develolments, and walkable neighbourhoods.
Cities in Europe have managed to build modern neighbourhoods without sprawl, we could too. We need to stop using the excuse “my country/province is too big for transit” when the majority of people travel within their own metropolitan area on a daily basis.
