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The newer projects the CIB is looking at are much smaller at minimum $50 million instead of needing to clock in at at least $500 million. and once again, no approval is needed tied to budget cycles. It is treasury board approvals to transfer money into CIB. The legislative approvals happened...

The HFR booster community is about to get a taste of what seemed to make pro-pipeline people so mad. As the regulator you have to play coy. Even if you really want to say yes. Perhaps even more so. and until they’re completed to satisfaction cabinet isn’t going to approve an EA. And submitting...

Re: whether HFR needs to be in the budget It does not in all circumstances. If the JPO comes back with a freestanding project, or with a scope that is freestanding plus elements which require a subsidy, the CIB can proceed with the freestanding elements without additional legislation. All that...

You get so close that I have to finish he thought. The purpose is for the general public to know Canada has a long distance train. Because trains have a certain romance to them and a lot of people can imagine maybe one day using it even if they never will. That extends to international prestige...

The current rail cruise on the CP line, the Rocky Mountaineer overnights in Kamloops where everyone gets off and stays in various classes of hotels according to the class of their ticket. Their setup ensures that no trip passes through the mountains at night. The Rocky Mountaineer makes money...

People like to feel valued. I'd extend the offer though: very frequent users should be able to gift upgrades to friends and family. Let them be your rail evangelists.

Building the infrastructure to electrify is expensive. Battery cost is dropping and recharge times are too. The math on these decisions is changing so fast it is hard to keep up in a ‘rule of thumb’ way. This will be a decade of massive changes to rules of thumb that have ruled our world since...

Oh. As long as it is greenfield that’s fine. It is trying to make CPR incremental that is a problem.

In Alberta the government will just let you close minor roads if it doesn’t create major inconvenience or if you offer to buy out people that are mad about the minor inconvenience. The more major roads they would never allow a level crossing on anyways. I’m sure it make sense in some places to...

It just wouldn’t be speed competitive with even the bus. For the amount of ridership you’d generate it just doesn’t make sense. With how far the cities are apart there is a speed sweet spot to minimize net cost and it is way above twinning the existing freight standard line. (The province...

In Japan for example you buy a base fare which gets you in the unreserved cars (no seat guarantee, no specific departure guarantee), and if you want to reserve a specific seat in a specific departure you can book the specific seat. If you miss that specific seat you can still use the unreserved...

Commercial failure versus projected to perhaps make money? Like seriously. It doesn’t fit what you conceptualizer to be attributes of a successful project. If people want a 11 am frequency then it will be provided. Nothing stopping them. Even before the pandemic flights between Calgary and...

The infrastructure or equipment won't be the constraint - just operational costs. The lost frequencies just aren't projected to have demand. Unless they really discounted 11 am-1 pm frequencies for example.

Yes, with a full rebuild, and lots of high speed crossovers, and some triple sections. CPR figures they can do mixed operations with passenger service up to 200 kph. Costs are around 65% of greenfield. Various studies have had different model frequencies - usually with service plans starting...

The land is much better for railroad building tbh (no blasting, gravel available everywhere), and with property ownership and roads being on a grid, you don't need a lot of it even with a brand new corridor. Still relevant, while wounded Calgary and Edmonton still have higher average incomes...

Between 15-20 trains on single track CPR, and about the same on the much less direct single track CN route. Neither have capacity for speed or frequency for passenger rail. VIA ran on CPR for years, but reliability was poor, speed wasn't even competitive with the bus and the route directly...

Still private alas. Demand is significant because Calgary and Edmonton aren't near anywhere else. So in Ontario where demand from Toronto is split between Niagara, Detroit, Buffalo, London, Waterloo, Guelph, Sarnia and Windsor, for Calgary, it is really just Edmonton. Here is committee...

No. Conventional HSR.

Unlikely as part of this. But I have heard there is a private proponent starting a process for HSR process soon. The province set up an 'unsolicited opportunity' framework for freestanding infrastructure projects.

The feasibility study looked at 8 round trips, plus 3 commuter runs from Cochrane. The inclusion of the airport link would change that significantly.