High Speed Train Coming?-split from boosting Canada’s military spending"

[Bruce Monkhouse]

I agree HT,....if folks feel like we need to put our kids another (at least) 90 billion in debt, let's at least use it to fix up things that matter to a lot more of the country, like fixing up the Trans Canada Highway from end to end.

 

[Halifax Tar]

I agree HT,....if folks feel like we need to put our kids another (at least) 90 billion in debt, let's at least use it to fix up things that matter to a lot more of the country, like fixing up the Trans Canada Highway from end to end.

Agreed I drive the TCH a few times a year from NS to Kingston and return. Perhaps that would be a better spend of 90 billion $$$.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Out off the other coast, I'd be happy with any rail, so long as it's not lethal to ride on, takes large, predictable bulk freight off the roads, provides a trunk passenger service to somewhere near most of the airports and some of the ferries, and has a commuter service, for Vic/Esq, Duncan, Nanaimo, and Courtenay at the same speeds as were provided by steam a century ago. "Catching up to post-Soviet legacy-infrastructure-heavy Eastern European services" would be aspirational at this point.

Similar services for everywhere else in the province with never-ending highway issues and projects and ever-growing populations would be lovely. Really need a new WAC Bennet and a rail-focused Gaglardi.

On reflection, I've probably posted something along these lines before!

Meanwhile CN wants to abandon the existing railline north of Squamish into the interior of BC. There is corporation pushback on that, but the current softwood crisis is not helping. Personally I would like to see the railline between Minette and Dease Lake completed. Then push it into the Yukon and link up to Alaska.