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Originally Posted by jawagord
Other than Canada and Sweden are both countries with trains what else is comparable? Sweden is tiny geographically compared to Canada. Distance and travel time are big determinants on whether passenger trains are successful versus planes and cars. In Canada our train system is most effective as a freight moving system not a people moving system. This isn’t going to change by throwing more money at Via. Much smarter to fund high volume intra-city passenger train service like LRT and metro heavy rail.
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Canada is large compared to Sweden but nobody was discussing a system in which the whole of the country was blanketed with Swedish-style service. I cited three corridors, with Quebec-Windsor as the first and most important.
Once you zoom in to the actual population belts, the total national land area becomes less important.
Sweden is a reasonable peer country for Canada due to a shared history of social democracy, a cold climate, large landmasses relative to population, and similar GDP per capita, Gini and quality of life.