04-14-2018, 09:19 PM
(04-14-2018, 02:49 PM)tomh009 Wrote: What kills this (and makes real HSR difficult, too) is the plethora of level crossings and slow segments through cities. That's expensive to fix, politically challenging and totally unglamorous -- and yet the gating factor to achieving any serious speed-up of the train service.
This is exactly why the region and city need to be reminded that projects like the current Lancaster Street Reconstruction (Victoria Street to Bridgeport Road, Design 2017 – 2019, Construction 2020) needs to be re-done as a grade separation or the chance is lost for 50 years.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.