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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
One of the issues with current VIA route to Montreal is service to small towns. Then the consideration of maintaining service during construction. It was mentioned about a similar meeting in Madoc. This surprised me, so I asked about milk run service that would stop in a few smaller communities a couple times a day by building sidings at the station. Not in the card as I was told
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I don't think that HSR is the right technology for milk runs. You add in 4-5 stops and the advantages over regular rail start to diminish very quickly. There is also very little potential ridership warranting a stop on either of the routes shown. The only significant population centre between the three big cities is Peterborough, and even 80,000 is pretty debatable to warrant a stop, particularly given that there isn't much around. Maybe it will be big with Toronto people wanting to get to the cottage more quickly.
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