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Originally Posted by McG
just because some guy in another country managed to swindle money shouldn't be a determining factor in whether or not a high speed rail link would work in Alberta.
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Hardly. There are just not enough people in Alberta to make it profitable. If you take...
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Beijing-Tianjin line, built at a cost of $46 million per mile
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that would make it 13,800,000,000 dollars just to lay track from Calgary to Edmonton. Place tickets at 30 dollars. You need 460,000,000 trips to break even just on the start up cost.