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[ijmorlan]

Yes I confused the naming of the high speed track proposed for Toronto 》 Kitchener 》 London. It would obviously be the single biggest game changer for the regions of Waterloo and London ON

OK, no problem. I agree the HSR would be a huge improvement in transportation. Messing around with more airport capacity is crazy when we still have people flying over short distances. Leave the flying for the long distance trips. The only quibble I would make is that we don’t necessarily need real HSR; a reliable GO train that tops out at 150km/h would be so much faster than the existing service that it would attract enormously more ridership. Although it’s easy for me to say that as a Waterloo Region resident; GO is no help for Londoners. London is enough further away from Toronto than Waterloo that the HSR would really shine.

Unfortunately this country doesn’t seem to be big on HSR implementation. Studies, yes. Implementation, no. To me the most obvious project in the country is actually Calgary — Calgary Airport — Red Deer — Edmonton Airport — Edmonton. You connect the 3 biggest cities, 2 biggest airports, and 2 existing LRT systems in Alberta with one system, eliminating the need for airport-specific rail service and all those short-haul Calgary-Edmonton flights in one 300km project. But I don’t have much hope even for that.