Lack of meaningful Passenger Rail service outside the Quebec-Windsor Corridor

[micheal_can]

Passenger rail

Alberta is developing a Passenger Rail Master Plan that will serve as the foundation to advance passenger rail in the province.

www.alberta.ca

This is very interesting. It talks about LRTs, Commuter Rail and Regional Rail. No mention of HSR.

 

[CapitalSeven]

Actually high speed rail is mentioned near the end as a possibility for the regional rail.

 

[micheal_can]

Actually high speed rail is mentioned near the end as a possibility for the regional rail.

I must have missed that. Thank you for pointing it out.

 

[Admiral Beez]

.. and that’s how it was lost in 1986 (?), at a time where routes were revived across the country (e.g., Moncton-Edmundston, Toronto-Havelock, Jasper-Vancouver).

Half my friends seem to have kids at Trent U. It’s too bad the Toronto-Peterborough-Havelock run was shuttered. There must be a couple of hundred university students a day making that run on the GO Bus via the GoTrain to Oshawa.

Here’s some footage from 1982.

 

[micheal_can]

Alberta continues passenger rail consultations – Transport Action Prairie

prairie.transportaction.ca

 

[micheal_can]

Was there anything in the budget for the LDF replacement?

 

[doady]

One upside to Canada (officially) becoming the 51st State could be improved passenger rail service. Might be easier to provide direct service from Calgary to Toronto, for example.

 

[lenaitch]

Was there anything in the budget for the LDF replacement?

Go nuts.

Budget 2025

Homepage — Part of Budget 2025.

budget.canada.ca

 

[roger1818]

One upside to Canada (officially) becoming the 51st State could be improved passenger rail service. Might be easier to provide direct service from Calgary to Toronto, for example.

Name one Amtrak long distance route that services cities the with populations similar to those on the Calgary to Toronto route.

 

[Bojaxs]

One upside to Canada (officially) becoming the 51st State could be improved passenger rail service. Might be easier to provide direct service from Calgary to Toronto, for example.

Did you forget to add "/s" at the end of this post?