Exactly.
This has become a vanity project, nothing more.
As I said elsewhere, Canada should be improving what it has already before investing in something like HSR.
We don't need HSR, what we need is 'High-Performance Rail'.
- Better on-time performance
- More reliable service
- Better onboard amenities
- All-weather performance
- Less frequent service interruptions
Canada can have a network of modern, swift, affordable and efficient passenger trains, like virtually every other industrialized nation. Yet it doesn’t. In the 1970s, both the American and Canadian passenger train systems were taken over by their federal governments. Since then, Canada has...
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All of this is achievable for a fraction of the price of what it will cost for HSR. Amtrak's regional corridor service is what we should be emulating here in Canada. Amtrak is pretty great now and it's a cheap and reliable way to travel around, especially in the Northeast.