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Originally Posted by _Q_
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.
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Rather topical since I'm about an hour away from jumping on a Frecciarossa from Milan to Rome. I think we'd want something more along the line of this service. Direct Calgary to Edmonton could probably be cut down to about an hour.
The Marseilles to Toulouse service looks like it cuts at 4:15 minute car ride down to a 4 hour train trip. I don't see the benefit to that. If we're gonna spend the ~10 billion to do it there better be a big payoff in travel time.