Alto High Speed Rail

[Kitchissippi]

How viable will be the VIA Ottawa-Montreal route once ALTO opens? Probably not at all. This means a loss of service to Casselman and Alexandria which might not seem a big deal but I'm sure it will have an impact on those communities (which further fuels the anti-ALTO sentiment in rural Eastern Ontario).

Likewise when the Toronto leg opens, we risk losing access to Smiths Falls, Brockville, Gananoque and Kingston from Ottawa if ALTO replaces VIA's Toronto-Ottawa route. I imagine VIA's Toronto-Montreal run would remain viable as a milk run, but we could use a GO type arrangement for Ottawa-Smiths Falls-Kingston. On the other side it would be nice to see an Ottawa-Casselman-Cornwall service.