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Sure, but that causes a lot of extra friction and cuts your overall demand. It also isn't fair to expect taxpayers across Canada to see their taxes pay for infrastructure in a separatist region when their own areas are deprived of transport options, even busses. This is why you have to let the...

You do realize that member-adopted resolutions have basically zero influence on party policy right? If you want to know what PP thinks about it, you have to wait until the election platform at the earliest. The reason he hasn't spent any time criticizing it is because the project has...

Exactly. Canada doesn't have a future (I don't think western separation is nearly as realistic though). As it stands with HFR at this point, I don't want all that political capital and public investment to go into a project where it will be rug pulled and end up on the other side of an...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-unity-crisis-that-awaits-us-on-the-other-side-of-the-next-election/ I don't exactly like digging up old posts in threads, but I felt that this article gave a good illustration as to why I don't concern myself with the fate of interprovincial...

I agree that with this. The LDS will almost certainly die with the HEP and Ren fleets IMO. Another interesting hypothetical. I personally think that the CPC will go full austerity and say no to federal funding of basically any infra. Ford has been buoyed by investing in stuff like transport to...

I will preface that this is entirely my perception, but I believe that you are wrong to interpret Pollievre as a rational actor governed by logic. He isn't as much beholden to specific voters than he is to corporate interests and general libertarian and anti-Trudeau vibes. As much as he rides...

More like Canada's Javier Millei, but I get the sentiment.

I'm not sure what about my previous posts makes you think I would want to see the end of intercity rail in Canada. What I really want is to see rail used effectively, and to be run competently. Discussion here lately has softened my views on VIA a bit, but after watching how HFR has unfolded...

To be honest, the PC's absolute domination is completely unshakeable despite multiple scandals worse than any of their predecessors. Nothing seems to stick to them and the opposition is highly ineffective. I could see the PCs staying in power well into the 2030s. It would likely be smart for...

Well, with any luck the province of Ontario may come into the possession of 32 new Siemens trainsets in coming years.

Interesting. I think my opinion that the new fleet will not be funded the CPC supermajority gains some credibility here. If they don't have the money in their hand now, there's no way it will stick around. A funding commitment of this amount will certainly be seen as a boondoggle.

So a small branchline shuttle then? I'm still at somewhat of a loss as to why a bus service would not suffice here in the long term. The distance is too short and the cities are too small. This doesn't seem to be a corridor where rail makes sense, both operationally and from a capital...

I really don't enjoy pouring cold water on transit projects, but according to the attached document this project would spend hundreds of millions on less than 1000 riders per day. It's not worth it. There is very little potential here to capture riders from cars, and this is not helped by poor...

If HFR is built there would be no incentive or reason to let slow stopping GO trains on an express line to hold up other traffic. Also HFR should bypass Peterborough if it is at all interested in having competitive travel times. But moving on, I'm going to cross-pollinate from this thread to...

I've been thinking about this lately and I don't think it's a bad thing. Redeveloping old rail corridors is a good way to maximize value of land usage and improve the wellbeing of communities. I don't think anyone would look at downtown Toronto today and say they want the rail yards back. When...

I think the other point of contention is that Peterborough, and Collingwood will never have GO trains. Neither will ever have the population to support even a single daily service and that's without factoring in the enormous capital costs of having to build or rebuild railway lines to those towns.

Again, it's provincial. You will likely never see that replicated on the federal level because as long as the premiers are handling transit populism, the federal government has no reason to touch the issue. The Ontario PCs and the CPC are vastly different parties. They (the CPC) are going to...

The important part of that Alberta plan is that it is PROVINCIAL. Note that VIA and the federal government didn't have anything to do with it. Sure, conservatives here do have some differences to Americans, however the federal conservatives are cut from a different cloth because they can't use...

I have argued this on another thread but this is why the federal government is completely unfit to manage passenger rail expansion. I'm personally of the opinion that Metrolinx should either develop an intercity transport brand, or expand GO to take over all intra-Ontario corridor routes from...

To pivot a bit, I have wondered this for a while. Why was the Sault - Hearst train cut, but Sudbury - White River train retained? They seem to be in a nearly identical financial and socioeconomic position, serving similar markets. Both were/are also funded by the federal government. It doesn't...