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Originally Posted by Sliver
Yeah, it's not going to happen. We already have more visitors than we can handle and there is a screeching group of people that will vehemently (and successfully) oppose any new development in the mountains. Pretend for a second this was financially viable (it isn't), there isn't the space for them to walk around Banff or LL.
I mean, for the first 38 years of my life, you could just drive to Lake Louise on a whim without any preplanning whatsoever and park right beside it. Now you need to take a shuttle to see it at specific times. And we want trainloads of people going there? Forget it.
If somebody gifted us a couple billion to make the trains, stations, etc., we'd need to construct a whole new town before we even contemplated inviting more people to the mountains. And again, the screechers won't let that happen.
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I think the idea is to displace the vehicle traffic and shuttle buses, not add to it. But ya, that usually doesn't work so well. I'm not against a train, it's just that this proposal is laughable in its planning and cost estimates. As an investor I couldn't see how it makes any financial sense at all, unless they manage ot wrangle boatloads of government funds, and as a taxpayer, I'm not seeing how that makes sense either.