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Originally Posted by YOWetal
If the corridor is gone, and even if it'st here it would need a lot of grade seperation, why not avoid the turn south to Smith Falls and cut a new path further north through Missippi Mills and then through the forest to Peterbourgh with maybe something like the plan above giving options to even bypass that. The country may need a lot of grading work but avoiding expensive land aquisition might be a good trade off?
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That's what I'm thinking they'll do. The original ROW, aside from being built over in the villages, is also way too curvy for 300km/h service - they'd have to do much straightening of it that it's basically building a new corridor anyway.
There's a hydro corridor that goes from Ottawa to the Darlington nuclear plant. You could basically build the train underneath it. It's almost a perfectly straight line in the rural bits:
You're not serving Fallowfield with that route, but you could have a station in Kanata. That's probably a more attractive suburban station location anyway.
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