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Originally Posted by milomilo
Never maybe. When the demand for intercity transit and its economic benefit is high enough that it justifies the cost of building it. There is practically zero economic benefit to running a train between Winnipeg and Regina, the number of users would be miniscule and those users would also be poor so aren't going to be producing much economic activity through that trip. The roads aren't busy enough that displacing some users would negate the need for road upgrades either.
Calgary Edmonton and Tor-Mon are different. Building proper passenger rail could mean fewer road upgrades. If it is cheap and fast, or even just fast, then it will mean more workers transiting between those cities, and unlike the passengers on the milk run train, the riders on the fast train will be of high economic value.
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Originally Posted by milomilo
My answers were weak? I gave you precise reasoning, but your response was simply to dismiss it with no reasoning of your own. I don't feel inclined to answer your question until you give my post a reasonable response.
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Costs keep going up. So, again, how many buses full of riders is enough?
Why not shut down all intercity rail in Canada? None of it breaks even. So, why should we be expanding it? It has a similar economic benefit as anywhere else. It is just shorter.
We are expanding it because it has grown from a few, to a few more, to a lot, to now what it is at. even with HFR, it will not be profitable.
Lets use that elsewhere. Lets start with daily service to all major cities with rail. That does mean the southern route as well as connecting between Calgary and Edmonton.
Via was shutdown for some time along the Corridor due to the blockades. Did it cause an economical catastrophe? No. So, there are no needs for any rail anywhere.
So, when should the prairie provinces benefit from the taxes they pay to the federal government?