It is, and maybe it will change some day, but there’s a reason intercity rail is concentrated almost entirely in the Toronto - Quebec City corridor - nowhere else in the country has the population density to justify it (though maybe the Calgary-Edmonton route will get to that point one day).
Why not trains?
Outside of the major commuter routes between large cities, the demand isn’t really there.
That’s too bad
It is, and maybe it will change some day, but there’s a reason intercity rail is concentrated almost entirely in the Toronto - Quebec City corridor - nowhere else in the country has the population density to justify it (though maybe the Calgary-Edmonton route will get to that point one day).
I’m pretty confident the Vancouver-Hope corridor could support commuter rail as well. Maybe Victoria to Nanaimo.
That would make sense - I was thinking there were probably some viable BC options, but I honestly never hear people talking about them.
Personally I never shut up about it!
Hey now, that corridor goes all the way to Windsor and you know it
Don’t leave KW/Guelph outta it, we got GO trains sometimes!
But yea, you’re right. I’d love to take the train everywhere but I really am stuck with 401 alternative only.
Rail has always been a chicken/egg problem
Where was the density to justify a coast to coast railroad in the mid 1800s?
If you build it, they will come
I’m all for the Alto project being a runaway success and spurring nationwide high-speed rail development, make no mistake.