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Originally Posted by Stevo26
I think the real stumbling block is this. Ontario is addicted to gasoline tax revenues. It also relies upon the auto industry for tax revenues and the generation of economic activity.
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The problem is that Toronto is growing rather rapidly and the 401 corridor is going to be experiencing more and more traffic jams as a result. Not too recently it was still the world's widest highway, but it is not good enough as a way to move people through Toronto and elsewhere. We need to get cars off the roads, especially given Toronto's projected growth rate, and high speed rail would help alleviate that. Toronto isn't really sustainable moving forward without some major infrastructure investments, and this is one of them.
I remain skeptical about this, given all the previous plans, but it does seem that it's a requirement rather than a "would be nice to have" type of luxury at this stage.