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Thats great, you can have a great couple days in Vieux Quebec, but how was Ile D'Orleans, Montmorency Falls, or the Basilica of Mount St. Anne?
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That's what CommunAuto is for. Local pickup and drop-off.
Lots of transportation options. Even more when you're not tied down to the fixed costs of a PMV.
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I do. The journey is the vacation; but then again, I'm a biker. I guess it's easier if your vacation destination is an urban area. I'm not sure Uber and its ilk cover Algonquin Park or Cape Breton Island.
You have to walk around 'old Quebec'. The last time we were there, we couldn't even find little niches to stick bikes in. Who thought allowing tour buses was a good idea?
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Good news about the Northlander.
I don't think rail means the end of always driving everywhere.
But, sometimes , it's nice to have an alternative.
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I don't think rail means the end of always driving everywhere.
But, sometimes , it's nice to have an alternative.
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You pick your mode of transportation based on intention.
If I planned to visit the areas around Quebec, I might have taken my truck and found lodging in Levis. Instead, I chose the train, and spent my 5 days in Old Quebec. If a HSR option existed, I'd have taken it, so I didn't waste so much time in a train.
The train choice was entirely driven by intention at destination. If I planned to be outside the old city, I'd have driven in the same amount of time, and spent about the same amount in gas.
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really good question and along with it, just to be consistent, do we really need to go full highspeed? Staying at 120 mph on a dedicated line would provide a travel time of 1.75 hours including city entry and exit and assuming no intermediate stops. Would allow the use of the track for commuter trains as well, with the appropriate sidings of course, in the same manner that both Belgium and France integrate their intermediate traffic. What would the cost difference be and is the difference worth the dollars? And how much of that 60B. is for the feeder traffic? I believe that YC/EG would make an excellent initial HS by the way.
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As for if it needs to be HSR, as we circle back to all the time, if it's not, why not just fly?
They had a Conventional Rail proposal and it was rejected, they went with HSR instead.
So that's two parts of a nation now looking at this and deciding HSR is the way. And yes, they will likely need to appropriate peoples land for this one as well.
Alberta is going to spend 60% of the cost of Alto and serve a third of the population as Alto. And it's still the right thing to do in the long run. Will forestall several lifetimes of highway expansion. Possibly even allow them to combine airports.
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The “combine airports” won’t be popular, if you understand the competition dynamics that exist between the Cities of Edmonton and Calgary.
But, the QE 2 highway (hwy 2) is already a complete shitshow and needs another lane added in each direction for 300kms. Toronto has already shown the limits of that strategy…
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The 413 is going to really help the western side of the GTA....
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For how long?
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Until someone comes their senses and realize Southern Ontario is over populated and everywhere around here starts to have water shortages like the Kitchener region.
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By European or Asian standards, Southern Ontario is barely populated.
I get their dynamic. But economics is economics. A train with a station at YYC enables YYC to have higher gauge aircraft with lower unit costs to more destinations. YEG will struggle to compete with that.
Schrodinger's overpopulation. So overpopulated that they'll run out of groundwater but apparently not populated enough to support HSR. By their logic .....
Southern Ontario has population density on par with Spain which has the highest density of high speed rail in the world. A single line connecting major centres is only controversial here.
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