When I visited Vancouver Island I noticed almost all major towns and cities exist on an almost straight line along the coast. I also noticed train tracks along the highway pretty much all the way from south to north. Looking it up, Wikipedia says the railroad service has been suspended due to poor conditions. Why won't the Canadian government restore the infrastructure and invest in a high-speed rail network? Traffic wasn't too bad when I drove there but I imagine a decent railroad would massively cut travel times between cities, potentially making it the better option for commuters. Especially if it can be made affordable. BC is basically China already, maybe they can import some Chinese bullet trains too.
I've never been there but judging by the shape of that line, it would require a destructive new project to make a HSR. Also the whole thing is like 150km, what are they going to do, make a HSR from Victoria to Courtney with 1 stop in the middle?
Yes, let's build HSR literally everywhere. Build it all the way up the coast to Alaska, then connect to Siberia across the Bering Strait. There's literally no traffic there but I imagine a decent railroad would make foamers have a massive boiler explosion in their pants.
>>2052036Huh, never really thought about it, but would be interesting if they could cut the ferry service from Schwartz Bay (already a good distance outside Victoria to begin with) and make Nanaimo the main hub for ferries. Tsawwassen is such ass if you aren't driving.But that will never happen because so many people are using it for car/truck ferries, and a passenger train does not get their cars to the ferry terminal so they can do the fucking drive from Tsawwassen to where they are actually going.
>>2052036>according to this they won't restore the rail because it's too expensive>BUT WHAT IF THEY SPENT 1000 TIMES MORE MONEY TO BUILD HSR???
Why would the feds (and when have they ever) given a single fuck about BC? If you haven’t figured out easterners hate you and will always see you as beneath them you don’t understand how Canada as a country functions at all.The BC govt? They’re bankrupt as fuck with multiple lost decades of NDP regimes, and Vancouver Island is full of retarded boomer hippies that’ll fuck up any project proposed in their backyard
>NDP extreme far-left anarchist led and supported by retards >infrastructureAlso>population the size of Hamilton>connecting one drug infested city with the others by rail Those tracks were built by the logging industry and are not meant for speed anyway. That region is entirely mountains
