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Old 04-17-2009, 01:18 PM   #27
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Lets assume its only a Calgary to Edmonton and vice versa milk run at 1h15 each way. Bascially, that means three hour round trips for the trains, assuming you ran them constantly. So, if the train schedule is to leave Calgary at 6AM, 9AM, 12Noon, etc, and I want to leave Calgary at 7:30, I am waiting around an hour and a half for the next train, whereas I could have just driven, and arrived at the same time.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that they are going to have more than one HST consist.


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From an environmental perspective, if we are going to spend that much tax money on rail transit, spend it on building out Calgary and Edmonton's LRT systems. It would have a much bigger impact, and be much more useful to the average person in both cities.
I agree that we should expand Calgary and Edmonton's LRT network but rather from a mobility standpoint. I'm all for providing travellers between Calgary and Edmonton an alternative to driving, but once they are in each city they will still need a convenient alternative. Basically, before we build our inter-city rail network we need to ensure that there are solid and reliable intra-city rail networks.


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If some private company wants to take a risk on it, go ahead. I think there are far better ways for government to spend our money.
Actually, I believe that the best railway systems in countries like Canada are ones where a Crown Corporation owns the rail infrastructure but rents it out to private companies that own the rolling stock and provide rail service.
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