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Originally Posted by milomilo
To be fair Canada could afford this with no issue whatsoever, we just choose not to. What is being lost or ignored in the conversation though is that even though many of us would be happy for Canada to spend that money, the decision has been repeatedly been negative. With that reality in mind, HFR is the last best option.
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We've had a half century of high speed rail talk and studies. And every time they study the price goes up, the government gets sticker shock and shelves the whole idea till another generation of politicians comes along a decade later. How long are we going to put up with this shit? I'd like to ride a moderately fast service in the Corridor in my lifetime. And I'm in my early 40s and not sure that's going to happen.
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Originally Posted by milomilo
HFR won't be flashy but it will be a solid foundation for more improvement. I'm confident it will be successful, as long as it is built. If it doesn't get build, HSR won't be built immediately instead, there will have to be years more of pondering before a real study is done, then deliberation and maybe that time it will get built. Or maybe not.
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HFR is sort of how HSR got built elsewhere. I didn't fully get this until Urban_Sky explained it. But now that I think of services I've taken in Europe it makes sense. It's the pre-requisite Higher Speed (and higher capacity) service we need to both justify and provide a pathway to HSR.
Getting to HSR may cost more in the end. But this is also the only way to get there, given that no government is willing to slap down $14-16B in one go. Unfortunately, our timid and inexperienced governments need a multi-billion dollar confidence building exercise before going all in.
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