Recently CBC's Kitchener Andrea Bellemore and Toronto Transit Guru Steve Munro both slammed Minister Glen Murray and the Ontario Liberal plan to modernize passenger rail through London, Stratford, Kitchener, Toronto. CBC , MUNRO

The Alberta government should not invest in a high-speed rail link between Calgary and Edmonton at this time, according to a new feasibility report released Friday.

There were sighs of relief in the Maritimes on Monday when Transportation Minister Lisa Raitt made it official: Ottawa will commit $10.2 million to upgrade the CN line from Bathurst to Miramichi used only by Via Rail. It was an about-face for Sydney native Raitt, who said earlier this year that Ottawa would not put any money into the railway. The New Brunswick government and CN promised to invest $25 million and $30 million respectively to upgrade sections of the track to keep freight moving — but not the 71 kilometres known as the Newcastle subdivision, which was to be sold or abandoned. And Via, yet another Crown corporation that has been coping with funding cuts from Ottawa, said it couldn’t afford to buy the track and might have to cancel passenger rail service to the Maritimes. Besides being part of Canada’s storied sea-to-sea passenger train service, the Ocean ferries residents of various northern New Brunswick communities to and from Moncton and centres like Bathurst and Mi

Studies question Toronto-London high-speed rail worth, while opposition questions costs

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-to-banff-high-speed-rail-service-proposed-1.2648385

Paris (AFP) - Cash-strapped France will have to trim back some 1,300 rail platforms at a cost of 50 million euros ($68 million U.S.) after realising a brand new fleet of trains are too big to fit its stations, rail operators admitted Wednesday.

http://www.inews880.com/2014/05/18/group-proposes-high-speed-rail-between-calgary-and-banff/

Tyee Bridge wrote an excellent article about high speed rail in general and the then possibility of Alberta being the first place in Canada to get high speed trains. The article from August 5th, 2011 was lost in cyperspace. Now I have loaded it on Internet Archive and it is available for all to read and download. https://archive.org/details/SwerveHSRCoverStoryAugust52011

BANFF, AB, May 16, 2014 /CNW/ - Today HSBanff announced plans to design construct and operate high speed rail from Calgary to Banff National Park. HSBanff plans include use of very high speed rail technology designed to operate at speeds up to 400km/h. Their mission is to be Canada's first High Speed Rail providing service from Calgary International Airport to Banff National Park.

No real surprise here, that the study states that for the Edmonton-Calgary corridor it is to early to put in high speed rail. The lack of any passenger rail service between Calgary and Edmonton is tragic. Alberta is catching up to Ontario in the race for the number of high speed rail studies completed with no action taken... http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/alberta/Alberta+ready+high+speed+rail+link+report/9844254/story.html

No surprise here when Tim Hudak showed up in London Ontario he had no comment on the high speed rail concept proposed by the Liberals. http://metronews.ca/news/london/1035670/hudak-non-committal-on-high-speed-rail-for-london/

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/talgo-set-to-move-idled-high-speed-trains-to-indiana-storage-facility-b99270470z1-259278631.html Talgo, the Spanish train manufacturer that's abandoning its Milwaukee headquarters, is about to transport its two high-speed trains from the city's north side to an Amtrak maintenance facility in Indiana to save on storage costs. The exact date of the move is still being coordinated, Talgo spokeswoman Nora Friend said. The company is paying for the move and the storage. The destination, the Beech Grove Shops in Beech Grove, Ind., is Amtrak's primary heavy maintenance and overhaul facility. The train sets have been idling at a factory in the Century City development on the north side of Milwaukee, an arrangement that brought $29,000 a month in rent to the city. Friend didn't say how much Amtrak was charging for storage. The trains were originally commissioned in 2009 by Wisconsin for its Hiawatha passenger service between Chicago

There has been some interest in the 2002 VIAFast 2002 studies. We have added them all in one location. The heavily censored documents posted are: 1.VIAFast 2002 Study (french),2.VIAFast 2002 Study (english) and for the first time ever the 2003 High Speed Passenger Rail Analysis: Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of VIAFast, Transport Canada/IBI Group. https://archive.org/details/VIAFast2002English

In case you didn't know about the interesting transit related studies regarding Toronto and area here is a link to their page. http://www.neptis.org/publications/review-metrolinx-big-move

Here is our link to the presentation by Glen Murray on High Speed Rail for London,Kitchener, Toronto at Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/MurrayHighSpeedPresentation.pdf_201405