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[tomh009]

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.

GO Transit's MP54 locomotives can do 180 km/h and VIA Rail's upcoming SC-44 can do 200 km/h. With proper track and crossings we could easily have 45-minute service from Kitchener to Union Station, and 90-minute service from London. HSR would not be required -- but track improvements would be.