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Originally Posted by ken0042
Every time this question comes up I just cringe. Last figures I heard put this around $100 Billion. It would still have to run city limits to city limits like the airports, there would still be a check in time like the airports, and there still would be the security delas like the airports.
Plus due to the climate in Alberta where we have temperatures all the way from -35 to +35 the gaps in the tracks would have to be so big that the train would have a max speed nowhere near what the trains in Japan have.
Can you give me one good reason why this is a good idea?
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So you spend $200 billion and make it underground and come right run right up to a new combined C-Train station at city limits. It'll just be like getting on the C-Train - integration with the metro transit system as seamless as possible. What do you need security for? Post a few marshalls on the train, you're set. It's not like customs at the airport. Who needs to smuggle anything from Calgary to Edmonton. Power it with like low maintenance wind turbines that run the length of the tracks on the surface and make the train go 300 mph.