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Originally Posted by Kitchissippi
If HSR doesn’t go directly to Dorval or Pearson, forget about eliminating short haul flights from YOW to either. Why would anyone want to choose the train and have to take public transport to make a transfer? You’d have to add at least another hour buffer on your travel time. I’d rather stomach a multi hour layover with my bags already checked in.
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HSR would still negate a lot of point to point travel. HSR would offer downtown to downtown travel times that are competitive with air. At that point flying only makes sense if you're connecting or your destination and/or origin are near the airport. We would see some reduction in the number of flights and particularly the size of aircraft between cities.
Will agree that eliminating short haul flights by law is impossible without at least one airport integration.
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