11-07-2015, 01:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-07-2015, 02:05 PM by BuildingScout.)
(11-07-2015, 12:28 PM)ookpik Wrote:(11-07-2015, 11:41 AM)BuildingScout Wrote: HSR is the preferred choice in the UKHardly 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.