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Originally Posted by milomilo
If it is financially viable for the private sector to do it, why is no-one proposing it? And what makes Alberta so uniquely good a market that we would be only the second place in the western world to have a private operator start a new railway service in the last hundred or so years?
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They have in private. In the past there was significant opposition in Edmonton to the HSR concept (as it was commonly thought it would kill their airport), and to using expropriation. So the government has to be on board first.
Calgary and Edmonton generate way more traffic between them than similar sized city pairs elsewhere, iirc 4 times as much as what modeling would suggest.