Train #641 is being introduced starting May 27th, 2024, which departs Ottawa at 4:15, Kingston at 6:15, arriving in Toronto at 8:48am, which would be useful for anyone trying to get into a Toronto downtown office at 9am.
Train #641 is being introduced starting May 27th, 2024, which departs Ottawa at 4:15, Kingston at 6:15, arriving in Toronto at 8:48am, which would be useful for anyone trying to get into a Toronto downtown office at 9am.
Canadian railway is a bad joke. Stuck in the 70s. Even the US has high speed passenger lines in service, with many more planned and under construction. Morocco has a high speed rail. Romania does. Saudia Arabia!
Meanwhile this shit is the best we get. A new train from Ottawa at 4am to arrive in Toronto at 9am. A route which could be done by a HSR in about two hours.
Well as a country we’re working on it, hopefully done in 20 years if the Cons don’t scrap or hamstring it.
Yeah. I don’t have my hopes up.
We needed HSR 20 years ago, not 20 years into the future.
If I could wish a HSR system into existence, or change the date of Mulroney’s obituary to a time before he decimated Via Rail, I would.
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
I too want HSR, but it’s unfair to compare the time of an express train to one making multiple stops.
I thought it is only making one stop in Kingston. That’s 127km for the first leg and about 260km for the second.
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