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Originally Posted by milomilo
Do you have some links for that? Not disagreeing, I'm just interested.
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Great question.
Traffic:
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Although the population of the Calgary-Edmonton corridor is around 2 and a half million – remember this is 2006, so they haven't been updated, okay? – travel in the corridor is equivalent to a population of 8 million to 10 million people.
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Source:
https://www.assembly.ab.ca/Documents...03beaff/8/doc/
The economics you can tease out from the public reports on the government website.
https://www.transportation.alberta.ca/3940.htm
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Originally Posted by milomilo
If something like this were to happen, what are the rules IRT track access? If this company decides they only want to run an HST every 30 minutes from Calgary to Edmonton, but someone else wants to run another train from Medicine Hat to Red Deer (or whatever), do the existing laws stipulate they must allow that?
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Under the Alberta Railways Act not automatically, common carrier provisions don't extend to passengers.
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When granting an approval, the Railway Administrator may make the approval subject to any terms, conditions or restrictions that the Railway Administrator considers appropriate in the circumstances.
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So you could - this would be a good role for the government to support building larger stations earlier on, and requiring interconnection if CP or CN wanted it at some point.
Have to be careful not to add requirements that hurt the economics too much though.