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High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitchener/London
(11-07-2015, 12:28 PM)ookpik Wrote:
(11-07-2015, 11:41 AM)BuildingScout Wrote: HSR is the preferred choice in the UK
Hardly applicable to Canada.

I can boil down most of  your differences to "they have a head start on us". The only way to fix this is to, guess what, get started.

Lastly the UK is also a late comer to HSR. They opened their first high speed line only in 2003 when the Dover-London Eurostar line became high speed. Since then they have created plans to expand their network extensively, thus confirming the need for HSR.

I could see a similar expansion here, in densely populated southern Ontario & Quebec: Hamilton, Niagara (connecting to Buffalo-New York City), London, Windsor (connecting to Detroit-Chicago), Barrie, KW, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Trois Rivieres, and Sherbrooke (connecting to New York City).

Additionally, we can easily justify a Calgary-Red Deer-Edmonton HSR. This, aside from being sorely needed, would also go a long way towards the Liberal party mending fences with Alberta.
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RE: High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitchener/London - by BuildingScout - 11-07-2015, 01:46 PM

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