High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitchener/London

[ijmorlan]

In terms of regulatory framework ... if you are thinking of banning flights between Toronto and Montreal, that surely would eliminate the air traffic, but I can't think of any country that has actually gone that extreme.

Anyway, banning shouldn’t be necessary, and presumes a level of knowledge unlikely to be possessed by the central planners.

If there are still people flying after an excellent HSR service has been operating for a few years, maybe there are actual reasons why they are doing so. None of this needs to be 100% anyhow, and that applies to all these things. If a few people commute 50 minutes each way by car it’s not a problem. What is a problem is designing our society so that a large fraction of the population finds that to be the best way to go, and even somebody who would rather do something different finds it difficult to switch.