Posted Jan 21, 2012, 2:18 AM
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hähnchenbrüstfiletstüc
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 33,694
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Yeah, there are actually a bunch of routes that make sense. Vancouver Island is one. Southern Ontario and Quebec can support rail service outside of Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal. There's also reasonably high population density in the Maritimes running from Halifax-Southern NB.
Part of the issue is that we're often presented with a false dilemma between some kind of high-speed rail costing tens of billions and the horrible service we have now. There are all kinds of possibilities in between, and you don't have to hit HSR-level service to provide faster trips than driving.
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