T3G
Senior Member
Fact check:Meanwhile 300+km/hr is a normal speed elsewhere.
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Fact check:Meanwhile 300+km/hr is a normal speed elsewhere.
Its a big risk. The CEO should be doing the legwork to get the support of the conservative premiers of Ontario and Quebec to support this project in order to insulate it from the political winds in Ottawa.Has PP ever given his opinion on HSR/HFR? Should we be worried?
The CEO should be doing the legwork to get the support of the conservative premiers of Ontario and Quebec to support this project in order to insulate it from the political winds in Ottawa.
Will be tough to get vocal public support when the entire process seems very slow.Both provinces support the plan. It's more a question of getting vocal public support.
Well then offer discounted tickets for passengers willing to shovel coal into the steam engine! What an authentic rustic train experience.I‘m sure the same was said at some point about steam engines hauling the „Ocean Ltd.“, „California Zephyr“ and other iconic trains in North America…
We really have to make the money case. HSR will increase economic activity immensely, give Canadians affordable.alternative transportation options, reduce congestion on the highways for goods movements and those that need to drive. Whether you're conservative or not, advocates need to adapt their advocacy to the government in charge, and also work on wording their advocacy to the general public.If there's a contract in place, the best case scenario is the next government allows the design phase to proceed. But we have seen governments happily pay several hundred million in cancellation costs just to fill a campaign pledge. So far no idea if the CPC is for or against. O'Toole actually supported HFR in his platform. No idea if Poilievre will do the same. We'll see. More pressure from the premiers would help.
One of the cases could be that the area reserved in Pickering for a new airport could be used for housing and the flights along the Corridor could be reduced and replaced with a train doing the same trip in about the same time.We really have to make the money case. HSR will increase economic activity immensely, give Canadians affordable.alternative transportation options, reduce congestion on the highways for goods movements and those that need to drive. Whether you're conservative or not, advocates need to adapt their advocacy to the government in charge, and also work on wording their advocacy to the general public.
A key element of my advocacy is that I change how I approach a topic when I speak go different audiences. When speaking to our conservative MPPs I specifically discuss reduced taxpayer costs, increased business activity, and less car congestion and more freedom to choose options. This is something I find progressive advocates really struggle with.
That land already has a useful and necessary purpose - agriculture.One of the cases could be that the area reserved in Pickering for a new airport could be used for housing
While I do agree that it should remain agricultural, As that area grows, it is in a prime location, so ignoring that it will ever be developed would be foolhardy. It also does not look like it is included in the Greenbelt.That land already has a useful and necessary purpose - agriculture.
Why would it be? The airport hold on the land long preceded it, and McGuinty likely wouldn’t have wanted to agitate the feds. In a way, an airport designated but not built was better protection than the Greenbelt turned out to be.While I do agree that it should remain agricultural, As that area grows, it is in a prime location, so ignoring that it will ever be developed would be foolhardy. It also does not look like it is included in the Greenbelt.
Sorry,I guess it is more about showing how HSR in the province and along the W-QC corridor would have many benefits.One of them would be no longer needing a new airport in the GTA.I'd imagine most, if not all of the inner corridor air travel could be reduced or cut completely if we had real HSR that would actually compete with flying, not just driving.Why would it be? The airport hold on the land long preceded it, and McGuinty likely wouldn’t have wanted to agitate the feds. In a way, an airport designated but not built was better protection than the Greenbelt turned out to be.
I unfortunately wouldn't expect a lot of capital funding for any transit projects under a Poilievre government though, given how he's a hardcore fiscal conservative who will be laser focused on spending cuts. One also shouldn't underestimate how much the CPC base has become radicalized against urbanism and Canada's largest cities, and any large spending program that benefits them, way more so then when Harper was PM. Poilievre doesn't seem to want to get along with the Premiers either. FWIW Doug Ford has been surprisingly pro-transit, but I don't think he could win the PC leadership today either. If anything a Poilievre government may be more willing to fund upgrades to highways in Western Canada than any transit projects. Of course this is 100% speculation as Poilievre has said very little if anything about transportation policy, but he often complained about OC Transpo in his twitter rants before becoming leader.If there's a contract in place, the best case scenario is the next government allows the design phase to proceed. But we have seen governments happily pay several hundred million in cancellation costs just to fill a campaign pledge. So far no idea if the CPC is for or against. O'Toole actually supported HFR in his platform. No idea if Poilievre will do the same. We'll see. More pressure from the premiers would help.
I unfortunately wouldn't expect a lot of capital funding for any transit projects under a Poilievre government though, given how he's a hardcore fiscal conservative who will be laser focused on spending cuts. One also shouldn't underestimate how much the CPC base has become radicalized against urbanism and Canada's largest cities, and any large spending program that benefits them, way more so then when Harper was PM. Poilievre doesn't seem to want to get along with the Premiers either. FWIW Doug Ford has been surprisingly pro-transit, but I don't think he could win the PC leadership today either. If anything a Poilievre government may be more willing to fund upgrades to highways in Western Canada than any transit projects. Of course this is 100% speculation as Poilievre has said very little if anything about transportation policy, but he often complained about OC Transpo in his twitter rants before becoming leader.
I would say it's lucky that so many huge generational transit projects (like the Ontario Line, GO Electrification, REM, Broadway Subway, Edmonton and Calgary LRT expansion, even the Ottawa LRT) made it over the line while the money spigots were wide open.