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Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear
I don't understand why it has to be high speed?
that the BC ferries had...they were high speed but you could barely get them into a place to open up to full throttle.
Why couldn't you use the existing freight rail system and run them at medium speed?
I would think you could run into the problem
Over the DT Calgary to DT Edmonton corridor I doubt it would make that big a difference in time..but in price it would be huge
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Would you take a train that took longer to get from Calgary to Edmonton then driving? With tickets more expensive then driving(maybe on par if you were driving solo)? Without the convenience of having your vehicle on the other end?
Ultimately in the Calgary/Edmonton corridor, driving between the cities is too easy/fast and to cheap. If we lived in a area where traffic congestion slowed down traffic and gas was twice as expensive as in other areas of the world, high speed rail might be feasible, but as it stands now it's not.