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

Is the Wait for High-Speed Rail in Canada Finally Over! Will the decades of false hopes finally be over, and we finally see high-speed rail in Canada? Twenty-five studies and 40 years of federal government politicians have come and gone, and no action has been taken. I remember in 2009 when I went to Ottawa to speak at the Canadian Government Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure, and Communities hearings on high-speed rail in Canada. I also went to Alberta to promote the Edmonton-Calgary high-speed rail proposal. Sadly, the events of 2009 did not differ from those before and after. Now, perhaps the time has come for high-speed rail in our country. I admit I was more than skeptical about this plan when former VIA Rail CEO Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, now a Siemens Canada employee, first promoted the idea of high-frequency trains at traditional speeds. Desjardins-Siciliano continues to promote their Venture trains for the proposed high-frequency rail line, regardless of the real...

 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...

Rare Construction Photos from Go Urban  Maglev Test Track at Toronto Exhibition Grounds 1974 All eyes were on Ontario in 1973-74 as German firm Krauss-Maffeir had been awarded a $16 million contract by the government of Ontario to build an experimental single-track. The 2.5 mile elevated people moving magnetic levitation train track loop which would be ready for testing in 1974 and use in the summer of 1975. Building Test Track at Exhibition Grounds 1974 The German firm would set up a new company in Ontario to produce parts for the system, a company that would be 51% Canadian owned. Another part of the deal iwas the Ontario government gets potential valuable licensing rights in Canada for present and future intermediate capacity transit technology developed by Krauss-Maffeir. Ontario set up a special company to licence the rights Ontario Transportation Development Corp. The test track would be at the Canadian Exhibition grounds. Maglev trains are lifted above a concrete ...

  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

 During this federal election, an important election issue is the funding of high-speed rail. High-speed rail is a train system where the trains can reach speeds between 200 m.p.h. to 400 m.p.h. comparison, regular trains usually go at a speed of 160 m.p.h. or less. There are several places that high-speed rail would be an effective transportation option in Canada. One of the most studied locations is the Windsor to Quebec City corridor. The line would include stops in Kitchener and Toronto. This corridor includes more than 50 per cent of the Canadian population. High speed rail is an attractive option that should be at least partially funded by the federal government, for several reasons. One attractive feature of high-speed rail is that it is a significantly cleaner form of transportation than automobiles or airplanes. Of course, having a cleaner transportation alternative isn't enough. You need a critical mass of people using high-speed rail in lieu of cars or planes to see the ...