05-17-2016, 10:26 AM
(05-17-2016, 08:10 AM)panamaniac Wrote: I would hope that Kitchener and Waterloo Region would fight like hell to ensure that HSR passes through downtown Toronto.
They're separate projects (indulging the fantasy that either will ever amount to more than mumblings around election time). VIA is interested in Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal, the province is interested in Toronto-KW-London(-Windsor).
There is speculation that VIA is considering reviving an abandoned line of the former Ontario and Quebec Railway between Havelock (east of Peterborough) and Perth (west of Smiths Falls) in order to bypass the lakeshore freight corridor. VIA already owns the active line from Smiths Falls to Richmond (west Ottawa suburb).