MisterF
Senior Member
It depends on where the new line will go. If they build it on the same general lakeshore route as the CN line they currently use, then I have the same question. It would make no sense to keep using CN tracks when you have your own right beside it. But if Transport Action Canada is correct that Via is planning to use the Peterborough alignment, then there will still need to be service along the Lakeshore/St. Lawrence. Either way, read the paragraph from Via's report carefully. It doesn't say that they will keep using the mixed traffic CN line as an interim measure. It says that the dedicated tracks project is what would enable them to redesign the existing service on the CN line. Big difference.Why would VIA build dedicated tracks between T, O and M and then continue to use the CN/CP tracks. Surely their report means that they will also look at their other corridors where they are still 'forced' to share tracks and try to improve service on them too.
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