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Prime Minister Carney announces the largest investment in VIA Rail’s history to bring passenger rail car manufacturing back to Canada (www.pm.gc.ca)
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[–] 15 points 23 hours ago* (2 children)

We will be building a new high speed rail from Quebec to Toronto so passenger rail will finally be separate from freight rail. Finally drag our asses out of the 1800’s.

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  • [–] -1 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    The amount of money planned for that could probably cover twinning a much larger amount of existing track, with less environmental impact.

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  • [–] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    Why just twin the line and still have something designed in the 1800’s. Canadians are so damn cheap to do anything properly.

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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago* (1 child)

    Twinning is a more cost-effective way to have passenger rail separated from freight, and it could make rail travel more practical for a larger part of the country than just that one corridor the high speed rail plan covers. A new route over new land is so much worse for the environment.

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  • [–] 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

    It would be dumb to put in new lines and not make them high speed. We are so far behind the rest of the world it’s shocking. Not sure if you travel the world at all, but when you see what is available in other countries, you realize how embarrassing our country is in that regard. It would not be worth it to just put in more low speed rail lines, kinda pointless IMHO.

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