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Just like for bypassing Ottawa, there is no commercial case for bypassing Montreal Gare Centrale. As I’ve explained on a different thread, commercial logic dictates that QM trains connect with MOT trains at either Dorval or (less likely) Gare Centrale:

He is the mayor of Montreal-West and therefore only concerned about public safety within Montreal-West and therefore presumably right. Whether his concerns should inform a decision about adjusting the current frequency of trains is an entirely different question…

You might also come across “NIMBY” (not in my backyard) and - my favorite - “BANANA” (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone)…

People who prefer a HFR over an HSR solution are not “haters”, but people concerned about how expensive it would be and how long it would take until HSR would have any significant impact on how passengers travel in the Corridor. California is still in the process of building itself a monument...

TVO had a really well-informed panel about the HFR-morphed-into-HSR project: My two only criticisms would be directed Dr. Haider: Fully-allocated costs (“$60 per passenger subsidy on the Corridor”) are meaningless when making decisions about expanding service. VIA’s operating subsidy has...

Currently, CPKC has to pay for the ownership (property taxes), upkeep and excessive labour costs (due to the extremely low speed limits of mostly 10 mph) for a line which they use (IIRC) less than daily. Selling the line and having someone else pay for ownership and upkeep while saving labour...

That’s entirely dependent on how much appetite the new (likely: Conservative) federal government will have to spend the dozens of billions required to fund „real HSR“. This project has scope-creeped into a beast which is many times more expensive than what VIA would have ever dared to ask for…...

There are of course multiple ways for an HxR corrridor to leave Toronto, but you‘ll struggle to find a second existing rail corridor which already leaves the built-up area of tve GTHA after ~20 km, then continues in a straight line over farmland for another ~20 km while avoiding any populated...

I believe there are many shades of gray between „investing tens of billions of taxpayer into French-style TGVs“ and „letting VIA creep towards obscurity“. However, the last thing Canadians need is a to recreate the CAHRS mess where construction stretches over half a century, because the...

Short answer: most probably, no. Long answer: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2014/09/01/putting-rail-lines-in-highway-medians/

Just to back these two claims up, using Euclidean („as the crow flies“) distances: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/via-rail.21060/page-1033#post-1990476

No political reasons. Pure commercial and economic logic: Bypassing Ottawa escalates construction costs and reduces revenues. Only politicians could fund such a nonsense…

Only until PP moves into the PM office and asks why on earth totally-not-SNC-Lavalin would deserve any responsibility for such an important project. Their scandalous selection as project partners for the Confederation Line and the no leas controversial execution of said mandate will also not...

I truly believe that we can disagree with each other without feeling any strong emptions and I recall the discussions here as very respectful. The point of my graph (which I should update, I know) is not to dispell the case for building HSR infrastructure, but to highlight that the length of a...

I’m still not sure what the metric “average top speed” measures and what its utility is supposed to be..

I suspect he wanted to say that the average of the maximum speeds of all pieces of rolling stock VIA has in its roster is somewhere around 95 mph, which would be just as plausible as that metric is trivial…

Agreed, but any Dollar wasted on building an Ottawa Bypass would unlock so much more revenues if used to speeding up Montreal-Ottawa and Ottawa-Toronto, thus benefitting all trains and not just (at most) 3-4 express trains per day. The TGV can cover the 538 km from Paris to Bordeaux (thus one km...

But now we are really comparing apples and bananas, as we could also remove the regions without HSR in France and Spain and then the population denisty of these countries rises significantly… Adjusted for population, it would get us quite close to France, though (I really need to update this...

CN has issues detecting Venture/Charger trainsets when they approach certain level crossings due to their low axle count, light weight and different wheel-rail dynamics. The workaround imposed by CN is to reduce speeds to 45 mph until the correct operation of any automatic warning devices can be...

I believe the Liberals have already accepted their fate of inevitable defeat at the next election. This project is only about increasing the price the Conservatives have to pay should they chose to continue with it or shelve it. Which indeed is very disingenuous, but in line with everything else...