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Originally Posted by jmt18325
You know, I'm not sure what people expect. Outside of the T-O-M corridor, there just isn't the density. We can't compete in certain areas with much smaller, much more populated countries.
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Strange that countries like Sweden and Finland have far superior railroads than ours heading into their far north, and along those corridors the population density is very comparable to most regions in Canada.
As I said, why can't Vancouver Island for example support a mid level capacity train that goes back and forth between Campbell River and Victoria several times daily?
2/3 of that route is a very agreeable landscape to build a railway upon, all the communities line up in a perfect linear sequence, in the more difficult stretches it could easily be single tracked to save money, make it an electric railway and run the trains at speeds between 100 and 150 km an hour (so no need for true HSR). Such a train would be more akin to a JR railways that accesses the rural areas of Japan.