http://www.calgaryherald.com/Alberta...220/story.html.
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“I’m very excited about that prospect,” said Redford, who noted her Progressive Conservative government has already carved out “transportation utility corridors” for such use.
“What we’re hearing from interested parties is that there are economic opportunities to allow this to happen, that there are different funding formulas that wouldn’t require the provincial government to be investing in this purely as public infrastructure,” Redford said. “I think there’s a sense in Alberta right now that we’re just on the cusp of so much exciting change ... that we’ve got to be making smart decisions now and not dismissing anything until we know exactly what we want the future to look like.”
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If people can get over the 'cool' factor of a high speed train they can probably see how it's probably not a great idea in the near term (Ie like 25-30 years) considering the low popultion of the Calgary-Edmonton corrider relative to places where these types of projects have been more sucessful (Still pretty costly). That all said Redford's answer was a little puffball. Raj Sherman seemed to have a better handle on the concept of transportation though, stressing that Calgary and Edmonton would need suburb transportation networks ahead of any such train.