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MEDIA ALERT - High Speed Rail Canada to Release Ontario-Quebec High Speed Rail Study
October 16, 2011 - 8:13am
MEDIA ALERT - High Speed Rail Canada to Release Ontario-Quebec High Speed Rail Study
On Monday October 17th, High Speed Rail Canada will release the Ecotrains Consulting, January 2011 Federal/Ontario/Quebec Government Updated High Speed Rail Study for the Ontario-Quebec Corridor. It will be available on their website, http://highspeedrail.ca as a free download.
Paul Langan, Founder of High Speed Rail Canada states, "The public paid for it it and the government has no right to keep the public from seeing it".
Paul Langan
Founder High Speed Rail Canada
http://highspeedrail.ca
519-654-0089
You could at least have dressed this up a bit so that it didnt look like bare self promotion of ones hobby horse.
Congratulations Paul - keep up the good work! One of these days we'll come to our senses and stop using airplanes and automobiles for these short hops.
And Ken, I don't think hobby horses are a good means of transport either.
Depends on what you are wanting to transport.
I don't know if VIA rail is ready for fast trains.
Rick Mercer on "bullet trains". Hee hee.
Unionist, rock out.
Yeah, not abusing psychiatric people is my HOBBY HORSE because I took a crowd dose of pepper spray and a truncheon to the head leaving a pool of blood 1 metre in diameter.
I guess I should quite being so SELFISH and EGOTISTICAL in trying to get pinheads in the media to stop writing SCHIZOPHRENIC when they mean DUPLICITOUS.
Somebody has come up with something of a reality check on the idea of HSR in Canada, and has proposed a solution:
Downtown Toronto to downtown Montreal in < 3hrs, at a competitive price, would be worth the investment in improved infrastructure. Electrification could make sense within urban corridors that also run regional commuter trains. Germany has a good system of rail integration.
i drool at the thought of hsr from quebec to three rivers to montreal to ottawa to toronto to kitchener to london, that would be a dream come true. though the problem is the cost - ridership would have to be pretty high for prices to be anything like reasonable, barring big-time subsidy. this is precisely the reason we need an ndp government, this is the sort of thing that would be plusses all around.
As usual windsor is ignored :( Anyway, they are talking about a midwest highspeed rail in the US. Chicago to Detroit(Windsor is 1 km away for those that don't know their geography so well) And one up the eastern seaboard. We could run a loop from windsor (chicago start ) to halifax and spur down to new jersey. Could do a lot to revitalize a lot of areas. The sadest part is we produce leading edge bullet trains and don't even use them in our GIANT country. Want to have less worry about terrorism and air travel, train is stuck on rails. Yes you could hijack one, but a lot less easy to crash into a sky scraper.
You can still crash a train packed with expolsives into a factory, or crash it into a big station like Union Station or Penn Station-it is possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnp4kj5lLOU
Chicken Little didn't have to deal with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjed8lV30a4&feature=player_embedded
Yes the Brits and CIA should cease infiltrating these terrorist groups only to nothing about it in the end, like 3/11 in Madrid, 9/11 in NYC etc.