[canucklehead2]

The last Van Horne HSR cost update from 2013 has the the Alberta HSR project costing...

Option 1: CPR at 200/230 km/h @ $2.5B
Option 2: Greenfield @ 250 km/h @ $3.9B
Option 3: Greenfield electric @ 320 km/h @ 5.1B

With those numbers I'd love to throw up a poll and see what people would support... I'm personally a fan of going whole hog and developing a proper 320 km/h line but the cost would be double the CPR option (which the company has been on board with since the mid 1990's even in the study itself) and I think that's a tough sell for a project that already is pushing the limits of what people will accept in a Reagan/Trumpenomic era...