MONTREAL — The federal government wants construction on a planned high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City to begin within four years. On Thursday, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the government’s new major projects office will work to speed up engineering and regulatory work on the Alto high-speed rail line. “This is a […]
  • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    14 days ago

    It’s infuriating that we can give away $500M to car companies to immediately put shovels in the ground and then go bankrupt and run away with the money (see: Northvolt)

    but with trains its always 5 years away, pending yet another feasability study and environmental impact report…

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      210·
      13 days ago

      They know it’s not feasible in Canada our cities are not dense enough. But it lets them siphon money to their donors.

      • pedz@lemmy.ca
        6·
        13 days ago

        They know it’s not feasible in Canada our cities are not dense enough.

        This is false. The corridor has a density comparable to other countries with high speed networks.

        The Quebec City–Windsor Corridor is the most densely populated and heavily industrialized region of Canada. As its name suggests, the 1,150 km-long region extends from Quebec City in the northeast to Windsor, Ontario in the southwest. With more than 18 million people, it contains about half of the country’s population and seven of Canada’s 12 largest metropolitan areas, 3 of which are in the top 4. Its relative importance to Canada’s economic and political infrastructure renders it akin to the Northeast megalopolis in the United States.

        FFS, Sweden has a rail network with trains going at 200 km/h and is currently building sections where trains can go up to 250 km/h, but somehow it’s impossible in Canada because we’re not dense enough?! Somehow we can expropriate people in a few months and build entire expressway sections, all over the country, sometimes in complete fields, with bridges, but linking a few cities with trains is impossible?! This is just car dependency propaganda.

        EDIT: This fucking country was founded on railways. The west wouldn’t be as populated as it is without these. Today we’re talking about establishing a high speed line over a fraction of that distance, linking multiple major cities with millions of people, and we don’t have the density? What a fucking joke.