So /n/, would it be a good idea to build at least one HSR line along this?
I would think a Montral-Toronto-NYC HSR line could be viable. GL getting a teafag congress to help fund it though. Maybe if Bernie manages to win the 2016 election and dems retake congress its possible.
>>895114
What about only building it in Canada? We've just gotten our new left-leaning government and they might be up for it if people demand it.
>tfw no leaf Shinkansen
>>895116
Maybe they should focus on getting rid of level crossings for Via so people stop getting killed by low speed rail.
>>895106
Financially? No. The Ecotrain report concluded that it would be financially unviable but it did make the case for it on a social basis. There are two major problems with that though:
1. Every pundit in this country would scream that the federal government is building another pork barrel project for Central Canada while ignoring the West. There would probably be some francophobia thrown in for good measures (probably something along the lines of some dumbass like Ezra Levant screaming this is all a plot by Bombardier and the SNCF who are sending bribes to the Federal government).
2. No party wants to spend big bucks on a project that will be achieved after their mandate has expired.
>>895116
>liberals
>left-leaning
They slashed VIA funding in the 90s (along with most other government services). They're not exactly a big spending party.
The most you can expect is that they might get a slight budget boost to replace the ageing LRC fleet along with some small infrastructure projects on the Corridor.
>>895114
I think the Montréal-NYC corridor could àbe made much more attractive with some basic infrastructure repairs and operation changes.
Thanks to the fact the Adirondack has to roll on some CP lines that are in especially bad shape and it has to stop at the border for several hours so Homeland Security can grope everyone's balls the journey takes four hours more than a bus or car. If they could streamline the border crossing bullshit, fix up the subdivisions (at least enough so that the thing can average 70mph for most of the journey) and purchase some new rolling stock (Talgos perhaps?) then the service would probably attract a lot more travellers.
>>895147
>àbe
I just meant be.
>>895116
>he actually think the liberals are left leaning
Didn't they basically do this years ago with the TurboTrain?
>>895173
No. The TurboTrain once reached 150mph on the CN Kingston sub in the 70s but it never ran at speeds of more than 100mph in regular service. Trains have been running on the Corridor at 100mph since the steam era and that hasn't changed.
>>895248
TPP
C-51
every previous liberal government ever
>>895248
Outside of the Pearson-Trudeau era the Liberal party has always leaned towards classical or neo liberal ideals.
One of the points Diefenbaker like to repeat a lot during his campaign referred to the fact that he was committing his government to spend more than the Liberals were (which is understandable considering the Liberals were still attached to classical liberalism at that point).
The Liberals only really started adopting social-democratic policies around the time King was prime minister and even then they only embraced them in the 60s. This lefty identity they were able to create in the later half of the 20th century really only reflects the way they acted in the post-war period when most Western nations were implementing lefty policies and it doesn't even reflect the way they acted in the 90s.
While the Mulroney government did start cutting services at the end of their mandate the Chrétien government is the one that savagely cut services, sold off large crown corps (such as CN) and slashed provincial transfers (which in turn forced provinces to cut services like education, healthcare and public housing). Sure, they kept the lefty rhetoric they had inherited from the Pearson-Trudeau era and made it sound like they really didn't want to implement massive cuts but the rhetoric did not match their actions. Only under the Martin government did they start increase expenditures again but even then corporate taxes went down, funding never returned to the levels they had been at prior to the cuts and they never dared to go into deficit.
Trudeau jr. might be a naive fresh face with some pinko ideas in him but he's still the leader of the same old party.
Ottawa-Toronto might be a good start.
>>895301
10/10 post
Thank-you fellow Canuck
>>895106
As with the US I think what is actually needed is to eliminate level crossings, reduce interference from freight/commuter services, and iron out the worst curves.
This should cut 2-3 hours from a Quebec-Toronto rail trip.
This can be sliced into many small and affordable projects.
>>895145
>Ezra Levant
well he is a jew
A Canadian link to a NEC HSR could work
>>895248
Canadian liberals =/= US liberals
>>896509
US liberals and conservatives don't fit on most scales. Both 'sides' are basically far right market zealots.
no. take a bus.
