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Originally Posted by acottawa
The feds regulate the railways, they can set whatever track prioritization rules they want.
The real obstacle is the amount of rail freight in Canada is so large. Canada carries more tonne km of freight than the entire EU.
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IMO we do need something like Network Rail, so it can plan ways to accommodate our large amounts of freight traffic in a way less disruptive to passenger travel. An example is the removal of the former freight railway from Sudbury to Ottawa, which caused more freight traffic to be routed along the main Toronto-Montreal passenger route. From the POV of CN or CP (can't remember who owned that track) this is harmless because this move cut their costs and they have no reason to care that it increased delays for passenger trains. But a Network Rail type agency would have recognized the value of having freight trains bypass routes with high passenger demand, and instead focused on having as much freight traffic as possible go through that route to keep the main passenger one clear.
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