The train is expected to use a newly built, separate electrified track and run frequently. In addition to Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto, it would serve Trois-Rivières, Laval, Ottawa and Peterborough.

Transport Canada initially estimated that the cost of a high-speed rail link between the two cities could be as high as $80 billion.

It’s expected to take four to five years to design the future high-speed line. Funds are to be allocated at the end of that time period, so it’s possible a future government could modify or cancel the project.

    • CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca
      41·
      3 days ago

      i love Vancouver, and live near it, but we dont have the population or destinations that they have out east for this project.

      • i_love_FFT@jlai.lu
        8·
        3 days ago

        We must think it backwards: building rails will bring population density.

        If we wait for density to be high enough, the development will not have been planned for rails and it will be socially impossible to make people accept the demolition needed to build it.

        • CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca
          4·
          3 days ago

          Fair enough, but we need to start where the density already is.

          Once we have it here, and maybe have grown the expertise, we can grow the system.

    • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
      21·
      3 days ago

      Vancouver doesn’t need high speed intercity service, it needs to improve the existing sad excuse for a regional rail network