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Originally Posted by greyshep
Seems pretty obvious to me. Size and population.
One example for reference:
France size: 551,695 kmē
Alberta size: 661,848 kmē
France population: 67.97 million
Alberta population: 4.371 million
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Nobody is really asking for a train network as extensive as France's though.
Look at cities like Marseilles and Toulouse as a case study. They're about the same size as Calgary and Edmonton, but they have high speed train service between them... and they make it work extremely well.