Isn’t there an HST project’s route being prospected between Calgary and Edmonton?
Comment on Expand North! So much room up there.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoBut Canada is “too big” for rail. Except of course all those railways 100 years ago that pretty much made this nation possible, or how nearly every city had trams in most neighborhoods.
TheSaddestMan@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
except for the places in the north where people CURRENTLY LIVE that are only reachable by train and airplane (not even sure about the last one, might be helicopter if the terrain is shitty enough)
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And the Trans-Siberian railway has existed for years, is thousands of miles long in awful conditions, AND electrified. We don’t have an excuse.