Comments on: On High Speed Rail

By: Taliesyn

Taliesyn — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:28:42 +0000

Even 18 million is too low. In that distance in Europe are 60-80 million people… In Japan even more.

By: Taliesyn

Taliesyn — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:27:51 +0000

Edmonton Calgary is 25 minutes in the air (plus airport time), or 2.5 hours by car. A TGV could probably do it in 1 hour, perhaps a little more.
Quebec-Windsor might make sense – but again you can’t have it stopping very often. Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Toronto and Windsor would have to be it to keep the travel time low enough to make it attractive.

By: Rabbit

Rabbit — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:28:32 +0000

The Windor-Quebec route makes the most sense. There are about 18 million people living in this corridor.

The Calgary-Edmonton corridor has only about 2.5 million. I don’t see how it could ever pay for itself.

I’ve taken the Grande Vitesse in France, and was very impressed. I prefer it to flying for distances under 800 km.

By: Cool Blue

Cool Blue — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:24:48 +0000

How long would the train between Edmonton and Alberta take compared to driving?

Personally, I would consider a train between Quebec-Windsor.

I’m near Ottawa so to go to Toronto I could fly there in an hour, or drive it in around 7 hours.

If there was a train that would get me there in 3 hours or so I’d definitely consider it.