CTV report by Dylan Dyson on the proposed high-speed rail line Toronto-Ottawa-Quebec.

 Une « solution du XXIe siècle » — la grande vitesse — est indispensable pour améliorer le service ferroviaire entre Québec, Montréal et Toronto, estime Alstom, en invitant Ottawa à voir plus grand avec le train à grande fréquence (TGF). La porte serait ouverte, selon des documents gouvernementaux. Spending more than four hours on a train to travel between the metropolis and the Queen City, as currently planned by the TGF, "is far too long" to encourage the population to turn their backs on the car or the aircraft," says Michael Keroullé, President of Alstom Americas. Lisez la suite de l'article ici:  https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/entreprises/2022-07-05/train-a-grande-frequence/alstom-plaide-pour-une-solution-du-xxie-siecle.php

High Speed Rail Canada founder Paul Langan has updated the list of previous Ontario - Quebec high speed rail studies to 24. The list and free downloads of some of the studies are available on their website. highspeedrail.ca Media Release (04/30/2020) Cambridge, ON - High Speed Rail Canada (HSRC) is Canada's only educational resource dedicated to promoting the modernization of passenger rail in Canada. Their mandate is to educate people on the benefits of modern passenger rail. They do it through their website http://www.highspeedrailcanada.com , Youtube channel, Facebook, Twitter @HSRCanada and public educational sessions. Paul Langan continues to review previous high speed rail studies done in Canada and load them on the HSRC website. Mr. Langan states, "We now have a list of 24 previous Ontario - Quebec high speed rail studies on our website with links in french and english to a significant number of them. We also have studies of Alberta and British Columbia r...

  There has been 65 years worth of studies and there still is no monorail in Canada operating as part of public transit system.  TrensQuébec High Speed Monorail Conceptual Design Montreal to Quebec City High Speed Monorail Proposal - 2008 - Present Quebec physicist Dr. Pierre Couture spent most of his career working at Hydro-Québec, Between 1982 and 1995, working with a small budget, the team developed an electric-powered motor-wheel. Mr. Couture had developed a high speed rail suspended monorail based on this technology. A group formed with Jean-Pierre Marchand, director TrensQuébec , and Pierre Langlois, physicist and specialist in sustainable mobility to promote this technology.  The idea was to run a high speed suspended monorail from Montreal to Quebec-City and other locations. It could run at 250 km/h.

  Toronto-Montreal vs Seville-Madrid Passenger Rail Lines Comparison After a recent visit to Portugal and Spain, and a lot of reflection, I am even more committed to advocate for a modern passenger rail system in Canada. Currently VIA Rail has a $6 billion dollar plan to have a rail corridor from Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal on a largely abandoned rail corridor. High Speed Rail Canada has exposed the major flaws in the plan in previous articles. I do believe it is good to give a factual example of comparing the Seville to Madrid High Speed Line with the current and future proposed VIA Rail line Toronto to Montreal. Populations The population of Toronto is 2,731,571 (source: Statistics Canada).  The wider Greater Toronto Area (GTA) population was 6,417,516 at the time of the most recent (2016) census. The population of Montreal is 1,704,694. The population of the wider Montreal metropolitan area is 4,098,927 (2016 data). Madrid has almost 3.2 million inhabitants ...

High Speed Rail Canada To Release Toronto-Montreal vs Seville-Madrid Passenger Rail Lines Comparison High Speed Rail Canada will release their comparison of the Toronto-Montreal and Seville-Madrid passenger rail lines. WireService.ca Media Release (09/17/2018) - MEDIA ALERT: At 8:00am on Tuesday September 18th, 2018, High Speed Rail Canada will have available on their website a copy of the their latest report to read and download. The population densities of Toronto-Montreal and Madrid-Seville are similar but the passenger rail options and trip times are dramatically different. High Speed Rail Canada, as part of their mandate to educate the Canadian public, has done an analysis of the two passenger rail lines in Canada and Spain. Media Contact - Paul Langan, High Speed Rail Canada founder at 226-505-7605 or by using contact page on website at http://highspeedrail.ca

Paul Langan, founder of High Speed Rail Canada, is inviting anyone in the Montreal area to come out to a social meet and greet on Sunday December 6th from 6:00pm-7:30pm at  McLean’s Pub - 1210 Rue Peel, Montreal, QC. It is a free event. Here is the poster LINK .

It is hard to imagine how the tragedy in Lac Mégantic could have happened. A comprehensive investigation will reveal that it was not only the human errors at the time of the incident that caused the accident. A systematic failure in the safety program at the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway occurred. Reading the Globe and Mail article on their reporting of the accident suggested many questions needed to be asked. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-equation-of-a-disaster-what-went-wrong-in-lac-megantic/article13214911/ Questions regarding training, competency, inadequate safe work procedures, maintenance standards of locomotives, staffing policies will be asked. What I hope will happen from this tragedy is that regulations will be put in place, and enforced, to ensure railway companies make safety a priority in how they do their business.