How to move people efficiently...

[ajl]

From my point of view the fuel tax is not going into the roads, we are destroying highways watching rail fall apart. Fixing building creating nothing.

Yup. Fuel tax goes to support bureaucratic pensions first, road building second. This problem is only going to get worse.

[Klause]

Great to see the support for public transport. We can and must do better with rail service. Unfortunately passenger service in most areas wont make a profit. And it doesn't have to make a profit to be a good investment. We happily subsidize the road system in this country as a public service.

But when Wall cut the STC because it was underused on many routes and required 17 million per year in subsidies many on agriville defended Wall. $17 million is a drop in the budget when it comes to subsidizing the road system.

They have been talking about a high speed rail link in the Windsor to Montreal corridor. Not sure if that will go ahead eventually. But if we cant build it there, where can we expand and improve service in this country?

Governments of all types have been useless at solving transportation issues in this country. We need to regulate the railways and force competition with joint running rights or some other method of making the rail system work.

Letting only the market decide these important transportation issues is a recipe for poor service.

I actually agree with you on that.


Three billion for ring roads around Stoon and Regina. I'm sure you could build a high speed electric link between PA, Stoon, Regina, Weyburn (or heck, even Regina->Stoon to start) for less than that.

How much traffic and emissions would that remove?


Linking the provincial centres (Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Stoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Brandon, Hamilton, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec city, and so on... Less vehicle traffic, less accidents, less emissions, less flights.

[samhill]

Yep, the best way to transport, nice level ground,hardly any rivers.
Company execs won't have the peons to make their flights reasonably priced though.

[farmaholic]

Are distances and population the limiting factor?

[tubs]

As soon as start subsidizing railroad the air plane industry will start whining. Also I was just in Romania and all the rails were double tracked what a concept hey. Most there are electric train engines