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If you notice, the two locations are Windsor and Montreal. Ontario & Quebec are currently working together and talking about making a Windsor - Montreal High Speed Rail Corridor.
Fingers Crossed
I am super excited!
I went to a “symposium” on HSR in Canada a couple months ago. A bunch of ministers and other high-ups were there to discuss it. really learned a lot about the hoops that have to be jumped through for this to happen.
The rail that is being suggested it not true high speed rail. It would not be considered high speed any where outside of North America. The North East corridor is going to be one of the sections of the system. The Corridor takes just as long to drive as it does to take the train. If they truly want to put highspeed in they need to do better than this.
One of the reasons why the high speed means even less for us in Canada is that the border crosses are restricting train traffic. The only reason why there is only one train between Seattle and Vancouver is that the borderguards have too many restrictions for the second train to run.
Also it is leaving out the important fact that the majority of traffic on the rails is frieght. So it should be focusing on the major frieght routes and if passengers take trains that run down the tracks that would be fine.
I have a feeling that this will be like the the turbo train which still has the fastest train speed record for North America. It was set in 1967 and is faster than most of the speeds suggested for the new system.
I do love high speed rail, but this will not work.
