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Originally Posted by officedweller
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I have a rather simplistic idea. What if we simply asked (and subsidize if necessary) a private, FOR-PROFIT company to contract the owners of the existing railways in Vancouver to run ELECTRIFIED (overhead lines, not 3rd rail) commuter trains on all of them? Not Bombardier's peices of crap built by stolen taxdollars of course, Kawasaki Heavy Industries (manufacturer of JR trains, Shinkansen, New York City Subway) comes to mind.
By that I mean not trampling of property rights by "zoning bylaws", pandering to socialist labor union hacks with their BIG GOVERNMENT MUST RUN EVERYHTING mindset, and stomping out NIMBYism and the anti-development luddites the Significant Projects Streamlining Act.
Now you suddenly have a Japan quality railway system serving ALL of Vancouver! If such a huge system existed, I would bet most people would never drive to work again.