High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitchener/London

[Acitta]

Cross-border coalition lays out vision for passenger rail between Ontario, Michigan

A coalition of political leaders from both sides of the border is calling on the Canadian government to make improving passenger rail service in southwestern Ontario a national infrastructure priority, and commit funding in the budget to make it happen.

Part of that would include track improvements, station upgrades, and a joint border security facility to restore passenger service between Detroit and Windsor, something that hasn’t existed in nearly 50 years.

[SammyOES]

Meh.  Let’s build a solid rail network for moving around the region, then the province, and then into Quebec.  Then maybe I’m interested in spending money to make it easier to move back and forth to the States.

“Canada needs to commit millions to build a required Canada Border Services Agency facility at VIA’s Windsor station, a plan it already has in their possession, Dilkens said.”

Geez, how dumb would we have to be to invest in anything like this right now?

[danbrotherston]

Yes, perfect proposal when cross border passenger traffic is down enormously and our neighbour is on and off threatening war.

The thing that is really amazing to me these days is how out of touch a lot of the a lot of American politicians (and Americans are in general). They're like "why are you mean, I mean, I know it's kinda rude, but you're taking a bit too seriously aren't you"? They just do not get how much damage this situation is doing to their reputation among Canadians (and globally as well).

And that's before you remember how Trump has been fucking us (and our Prime Minister seems to be again pursuing appeasement) on the latest cross border crossing improvement.