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

[ytz]

This is a podcast interview by Erin O'Toole. He interviews well known Canadian transit advocate and train nerd Reece Martin. It covers a lot of the discussion on here. Including ideas that some here have had about repurposing existing corridors. Worth the watch.

 

[HavokFour]

We'll have the proposal for the Montreal-Ottawa portion of the route soon.

High-speed rail project: federal government to present route between Montreal and Ottawa this fall

The federal government will present this fall the route of the first segment of the Quebec City to Toronto high-speed rail (HSR) project: the Montreal to Ottawa route. Federal Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon indicated this on Friday, as the two-day retreat of the federal cabinet in Banff...

montreal.citynews.ca

 

[HavokFour]

Update on the proposed Edmonton-Red Deer-Calgary HSR.

Alberta announces next step in high-speed rail plan to connect Edmonton, Calgary | Globalnews.ca

Premier Danielle Smith says Ottawa has agreed to refer the project to its major projects office once a proponent has been selected.

globalnews.ca

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Montreal tunnel, Canadian Shield among major risks driving up high-speed rail cost, warns watchdog

The proposed high-speed rail line between Quebec City and Toronto could cost billions more than the federal government’s estimate, according to a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

www.ctvnews.ca

"We'll get higher and higher,
straight up we'll climb....."

Sing it Sammy Hagar

 

[ytz]

And in 20 yrs the price tag will be even higher.

If we listened to folks who only see price tags, the Confederation Bridge or the railways that built this country would never have been constructed.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

If we listened to folks who only see price tags,

What a great country we could have been if only we listened about 50? years ago.