this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
112 points (99.1% liked)

Fuck Cars

9659 readers
178 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

Recommended communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
ConfidentLonely@lemmy.world
Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world
toaster@slrpnk.net
112
Canadian Federal government going ahead with high-speed rail between Quebec City and Toronto (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Twoafros@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The Trudeau government will announce plans for a high-speed train linking Quebec City and Toronto in the coming weeks, Radio-Canada has learned.

Proponents of the project hope the train will take passengers from Montreal to Toronto in three hours. By car, it takes about five-and-a-half hours to travel between the two cities.

Sources told Radio-Canada the train will travel 300 kilometres per hour — double the speed of Via Rail's current trains.

Ottawa announced plans back in 2021 to build what it called a "high-frequency" (HFR) rail corridor with stops in Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, Trois-Rivières, Laval and Quebec City. Sources told Radio-Canada the federal government has now decided the Toronto-Quebec City link will be high-speed.

The train would use a newly built, separate electrified track and run frequently. In addition to Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto, it would serve Trois-Rivières, Laval, Ottawa and Peterborough.

top 3 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

This is exactly what we need. I hope they can follow through. For it to be effective, it will need to connect to local transit in each city. Currently, the Via rail stations in Ottawa are not connected to the LRT.

[–] nofob@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe it will even happen before California HSR!

[–] SatouKazuma@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed, but this type of shit (along with healthcare) is what's driving me to leave the US for good next year.