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Originally Posted by ScovaNotian
I'm wondering what it would take to extend the rail line that ends at the Irving shipyards all the way to Cogswell. There is an almost continuous row of parking lots where it would need to go, and Cogswell would be a better terminus than the VIA station.
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There is indeed a contiguous line of undeveloped land from the current end-of-track north of Irving, south to Cornwallis Street. I was told after the tracks came up in the mid-70s that that was by design, that the railway right-of-way was to be preserved. I have no documentary evidence to prove that, but it would explain why no one has obstructed that corridor substantially in the past fifty years.
Which isn't to say that reinstalling rail would be cheap or without physical or political obstacles, but a forward-thinking city surely would preserve that option in its long-term transportation planning.
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