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submitted 1 year ago by Grappling7155@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Canada is great at high-speed rail studies โ€” but not at actually building high-speed rail. So why is it the only country in the developed world considering a new conventional-speed passenger network?

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[-] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Sharing lines isn't that unusual, it's been done since the dawn of the railroads. It's just that freight would be waiting on sidings while passenger and mail moved. Via Rail is just bass-ackwards.

I suppose the problem is that CN or CP own the tracks, and Via is just the renter, so CN and CP give lower priority.

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