One thing to kind of "zoom out" here and look at some realities, is that true HSR is so, so, so much better than what we have now, that we're all kind of missing just how significant some less-expensive, incrementally better service options are. I'm always amazed when I go to Mainland Europe or the UK and get on a "regular, slow" train and it's some pissant EMU doing 200 km/h and the next one comes along in <10 minutes. We would be over the moon with service like that, and over there, that's just the basic norm.
Don't get me wrong, at all - as a rail enthusiast there's nothing more that I want to see than HSR in Canada! I'm just saying, that even if we don't get full HSR, Electrification and sustained 160 km/h are vast, massive, huge improvements over what we have now.
Don't get me wrong, at all - as a rail enthusiast there's nothing more that I want to see than HSR in Canada! I'm just saying, that even if we don't get full HSR, Electrification and sustained 160 km/h are vast, massive, huge improvements over what we have now.