While the debacle over the future of Canada's passenger rail system continues, over in Spain amazing things continue to happen. Renfe, the Spanish government low cost high-speed rail service is named. Avlo . It already had competition from France's SNCF low cost high-speed rail service Ouigo on some of the routes. Now the latest news is that Spain's Air Nostrum and Italy's main train operator, Tranitalia are teaming up and entering into the Spanish low cost high-speed rail market with  Iryo in 2023. The high-speed trains will be from Bombardier and Hitachi. Imagine three high-speed rail operators on one line!  Time to wakeup Canada.

Our mandate is to educate Canadians on high speed rail in Canada. We are the only advocacy group in Canada promoting modern passenger rail. We are very proud to announce that on October 3rd 2014 we will be releasing the previously unreleased high speed rail study on the Windsor - Quebec City corridor paid for by the municipalities along the line. It was done by the France national Railway SNCF (Société nationale des chemins de fer français; "National society of French railway) and partners. Stay tuned.

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.