Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Townline Road

[ijmorlan]

The post above, though, was pointing out that diverting substantial freight traffic to rail is not feasible today.

Of course it’s not feasible to “just do it”. But it’s perfectly feasible to start doing things that would allow more freight to move by rail in the future, rather than doing the things that will allow more freight to move by road in the future.

Arguably future demand is the easiest to shift: if we set a policy that most new demand shall be handled by rail and public transportation, then everybody can plan for that. And any new demand that cannot be so handled can fit into the space currently occupied by demand which currently uses roads but could easily shift.