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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
^Indeed. Although some on city council have finally woken up to the inevitability of London's future growth, they still have not come around to recognizing the need to build the infrastructure to support such growth. One day, we will have to have LRT, and it will be much more expensive and harder to implement 15 years from now, when the city has grown by another 100-250K, than now.
Even more important is the need for HSR down the corridor, at least from Montreal to London (via Ottawa, Toronto, and KWC), and better still, from Quebec City through to Windsor. It is downright embarrassing how awful our intercity rail links are (easily the worst in the developed world...I am not blaming VIA, but the governments that have starved it).
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Agreed regarding our terrible regional transit.
I've always valued VIA and its ability to connect communities big and small to the wider area. It's dumbfounding how starved our rail options are when we have a decent railway system (in terms of rail trackage) to work off of. Yes, it needs to be invested in, doubled in areas, repaired, etc, but that's the nature of working with any infrastructure spanning many thousands of kilometres in a variety of land uses and geographies.
HSR would be amazing down the line, I just hope we see the ball roll on that before this decade rolls out.....which itself is ambitious to say.
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