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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
Just a note but HFR is not planned to run through Kingston, but rather Peterborough. Half the point of the project is to pull trains off the congested lakeshore rail corridor which is full of freight trains. Trains will reconnect with the existing line in Smith Falls outside of Ottawa.
So smaller cities like Oshawa, Cornwall, and Kingston won’t be serviced. Stops will basically be Toronto - Peterborough - Ottawa - Montreal - Troi Rivières - Quebec.
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This map is well known and it suggests that they are at least studying the possibility of an Ottawa bypass so that some Montreal-Toronto trains may have a faster travel time. We will see if that actually becomes part of the final plan. Of course, the Ottawa-Toronto route is also VIA's most popular route.