[Metro-One]

At the bare minimum BC should have at least a couple mid speed rail corridors.

Victoria to Campbell River is the most obvious IMO, after that is Vancouver (or Surrey) to Chilliwack (maybe Hope) and then Vancouver / North Vancouver to Whistler (maybe Pemberton).

In a perfect world there would also be a line from Osyoos to Kamloops, and then a beefed up link between Kamloops and Van.

These would serve as semi local and regional connections (similar to the trains that service my area of Japan, station spacing averages around 5 km or so (maybe 2 km in the most urban settings and up to 10km or more in the very rural areas). Local trains travel at max speeds around 120km and the regional express trains are around 180km.

The population density along my line is far less than the Fraser Valley, is near identical to eastern Vancouver Island, and not too much more than the Okanagan.

These would have to be largely federal though, but seeing how we are a car dependent culture compared to Japan, and both eastern Vancouver Island and the Okanagan don't even have a real freeway as a spine (yet the similar corridor where I live in Japan does have a complete freeway network as well) I don't think we will be seeing any of that this century. Would be nice if the "green" parties (NDP, federal Liberals) actually had balls and embarked on some major revolutionary rail projects.