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

[Altair]

Why focus on the train notion? The last few years has seen a massive development in Halton county from Milton east through to Mississauga. Whilst all that mud was flying would have been the perfect time to construct a dual track interurban system parallel to Derry Road and meeting up with the GO at some point enroute. Every one of these new subdivisions you have mentioned in whatever city should have a transit system as part of its construction strategy. Something like this. Flat fare of 3 Euros, it travels at 70 kmh between stops and has a neat gadget that allows the driver to call up a green light at an intersection so there is very little delay.



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Still sounds like a provincial issue.

 

[YZT580]

Still sounds like a provincial issue.

Going by definition, Toronto to Ottawa is also a provincial issue. The only section that makes it a national one is the little bit between Ottawa and Montreal. In reality, travel should be of concern on all levels but since Ottawa has and continues to ignore the interests of the vast majority of Canadians in their planning the provinces should pool their markets and devise a interurban system that could be applied throughout all of the major residential blocks if it fits and amplified if appropriate between urban centres. The larger scale should provide for lower building costs and reduce the duplication of effort. As others have pointed out our market is spread out over a huge territory with numerous concentrations of people but nothing that would call out for attention on its own. The Tri-city area constructed almost 40 km of surface light rail through two major downtown cores for about 3 billion with a daily ridership of 17000 and a goal of 25000. That is a lot of buses and a whole slew of cars that are remaining in the garage. For both Quebec and Ontario, putting the provincial tithe for the HSR and combining resources would be a far better use of scarce transit money.