“Canada’s High Speed Rail Embarrassment” G8 COUNTRIES HIGH SPEED RAIL COMPARISONS TO CANADA UPDATED: October15th, 2012 - by High Speed Rail Canada http://highspeedrail.ca or blog http://www.highspeedraicanada.com – Paul Langan, Founder High Speed Rail Canada 519-654-0089, Canada is the only G8 country that does not have high speed rail. In our 2012 update, Canada falls even farther behind the rest of the G8 countries in high speed rail. Here is a summary of the facts. Canada – None - The federal government has no plan for high speed rail and no money allocated. The latest current high speed rail studies done in Canada, (Windsor-Quebec City 2011 and Calgary – Edmonton 2009) have, like all previous others, been shelved and no action has been taken. According to the Chief executive of VIA Rail Marc Laliberté, The fastest train that VIA RAIL runs has an average speed of about 115 kilometres an hour. VIA Rail in 2012 is cutting train service to the cities of Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmon...

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