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Canada-USA High Speed Rail Possibilities – Part 4 -Detroit-Windsor Border

As part of our ongoing series on cross border high speed passenger rail crossing, at the request of several people, we will now look at the Windsor Detroit border. Most if not all the passenger rail corridors improvements currently envisioned connecting Canada and the USA would result in higher speed passenger rail as opposed to true high speed rail. (over 200kph). In the case of Windsor Detroit there is no current passenger rail between the two cities. The usual suspects, as in our previous articles, play a part in ensuring restoring passenger rail between the cities remains just a dream. Two known suspects are: 1.The Canadian federal governments continuing refusal to have any plan or legislation for passenger rail in Canada including cross border issues and 2. Canada’s CP railways and to a lesser extent CN have no desire in seeing passenger rail restored at the Windsor/Detroit border. But unfortunately it’s a much worse situation at this rail border crossing than any other possible o...