[CaptainCrunch]

I totally think that 20 million is on the really really low side, this isn't like the 18 hundreds when your press ganging tracks with hammers.

A High Speed Railway is a whole other level, and especially going through the mountains. There would also be a pretty large environmental impacts to this.

I honestly don't feel that building infrastructure just to say its cool, or on the chance that it will garner international news is necessarily the best reason to build it when it comes to cost benefit.

If we're doing that then we might as well build an escalator to no where.

I also tend to think that you might get an initial surge or passengers due to its uniqueness, the airlines would view it as competition, and squash their calgary to vancouver rates and people would pick flying over trains. After the first, ohhh look at the views, it would come down to 2 hours on a plane, to what a day on a train.

Projects like this, like wireless are things that to me have to be spearheaded by the private and not public sector, 20 or 40 billion dollars worth of government funds could be spent elsewhere more effectively.