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Originally Posted by Azure
So, after looking at worth's pictures....and his comments about the high speed trains, I was wondering why Canada couldn't do something similar.
The #1 already goes through most major cities.......so, the route would be planned.
Because of the distance, and the technology available today, it could be possible to hit speeds up to 500km/h, which makes a trip from Winnipeg to Calgary about 3 hours long.
If possible, it would also be great to be able to drive your own car onto the train, go for a hour ride, and get off in Regina, for example.
It would hugely cut down on emissions, pollutions, cut back on the amount of gas being using, fossil fuels...and increase traveling time, and even possibly increase productivity.
Because of the way our country is set up....I think we're at a huge advantage to build something like this.
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A proposed high speed train from Calgary to Edmonton would cost between $3-20 billion dollars to build.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/sto...-edmonton.html
So a high speed train from say Montreal to Vancouver would cost hundreds of billions of dollars. How economical is this? The country is too big and the population is too small for this type of project.