High Speed Train Coming?-split from boosting Canada’s military spending"

[Kilted]

Your NDI 75 is coded into your PRESTO card. So, as of March 1, you can ride the entire GO system 8 passenger rail lines
including the Union-Pearson ( UP ) Express, anytime for free.

How do you do that? We are at like D-5 and I still haven't heard how this is supposed to work. Do I just not tap my presto card show military ID if the Fare Protection people come by?

 

[FSTO]

I'm sorry but that's a complete fallacy. We're both good Manitoba boys and obviously we both understand that HSR doesn't make sense here. The Brandon to Winnipeg corridor doesn't even come close to the population of Montréal for example. But I don't begrudge my fellow countrymen to the East because this project makes sense and can only exist in dense corridors. This could improve their lives and indirectly improve my life since it's projected to boost our GDP in a noticeable fashion. It's a nation building slam dunk. We need nation building now more than ever and hell, this can help keep our steel and concrete industry alive with the incoming economic warfare from the Orange Lad. If we're being completely introspective here, I'm almost certain if Prime Minister Poilievre announced this this thread would be far less hostile but partisanship is taking precedence here. We all have our biases and that is often deserved by the Liberals, but that doesn't mean they can't be right from time to time. This is a time they're right and they brought the best partner possible on board for it (SNCF).

Third MB boy. I’d love to have passenger rail ( normal speed) back on the prairie. Especially since the demise of buses.

 

[PrairieFella]

Third MB boy. I’d love to have passenger rail ( normal speed) back on the prairie. Especially since the demise of buses.

You and me both man, but unfortunately it just isn't feasible. There is an argument that can be made that by using the short trackage you can run a corridor from Winkler/Morden all the way to Gimli via Winnipeg but it's like 3 different short lines and the tracks are rough. My grandfather was a lucky man to be able to take a train to Grand Beach, party with the girls at the giant dance hall, hit the boardwalk and the beach and then take the night train home.