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Originally Posted by BCPhil
It depends on what you call HSR. Yes, it might not be affordable to build true HSR anywhere other than Seattle bound, but relatively high speed rail to other locations would benefit this province. If travel times to Hope on a train were comparable to driving it could open up the entire Fraser Valley to Vancouver much like GO and Via open up the entire Golden Horseshoe to Toronto. And while GO has 7 lines, you could hit most of the Valley with just 1.
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There just isn't any economic reason to extend a high-speed (or even low-speed) line out to Hope, which has a population of 6,000.
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