The fact that we don’t have more trains — never mind high\u002Dspeed ones — is no mystery at all
Guilbeault apparently didn’t bother to check the schedule, as the pandemic meant that, until recently, VIA Rail had been running fewer trains. He also apparently didn’t check a map, as VIA doesn’t serve five provincial capitals, which makes a tour to “all parts of the country” problematic by definition.
For starters, unlike places such as Europe and Japan, Canada has a much lower population density — even in the densest parts. At its widest definition, the 1,150 kilometre corridor from Quebec City to Windsor, Ont., for example, has a population of around 18 million. The equivalent corridor in Japan of almost identical length, known as the Tokaido corridor, has a population of 75 million.
Some train boosters concede that the economics may not make much sense, but insist that the need to reduce carbon emissions is so pressing that it makes building more rail an imperative, cost be damned. But this argument loses much of its attraction once you look at both the opportunity cost of spending the same money on other ways to reduce emissions, and the likelihood of seducing sufficient numbers of people away from their cars.
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