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WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I'm surprised that Pee-Pee's wife is cool with her husband working closely alongside his ex-girlfriend.
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I bet that she’s perfectly fine with it. Pierre & Anaida’s marriage strikes me as a purely political/business arrangement.

Byrne and Pierre may be kindred spirits, but as part of his “Conservative PM-in-waiting” make-over, he needed a photogenic, stay-at-home tradwife to provide him with some kids and a partner for photo ops & the campaign trail.

On Anaida’s side of things, she’s always been a far-right conservative true believer with an interest in lifestyle blogging and being a social media influencer. So being the wife of the CPC leader and (and who she no doubt presumed to be) the future PM was a golden opportunity at financial security and to grow her brand. And she probably does genuinely admire his politics too.
 
wiseguy1 said:
its still a fraction of the population of the Eastern seaboard USA and they still dont have a true extensive high speed train service there.
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Best way to look at rail viability is between city pairs. There's actual math formulas that help to sort out potential viability, City Nerd on youtube is the best easily available source on the matter


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE5G1kTndI4
 
His prediction of the US election was fairly accurate. It's interesting that his Toronto to Montreal route was not high on the list, but Detroit to Toronto was.
 
Leafyblue said:
His prediction of the US election was fairly accurate. It's interesting that his Toronto to Montreal route was not high on the list, but Detroit to Toronto was.
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Detroit is 150km closer to Toronto than Montreal is, and has the same metro population.

Also, to be clear, the list is comparing those city pairs to Madrid-Valencia. A super high frequency route in Spain. Toronto-Montreal is way more theoretically viable (assuming similar ticket prices, frequency, comfort, etc) than Madrid to Valencia is. They're very compatible....it's just that Toronto-Detroit are only 370km apart.
 
Also, a bunch of the Mexico routes he mentioned have started construction already. Not European high speed, but 200kmh service. The CDMX-Nogales route started construction in April.

The Green line on the left up the Pacific coast shown here:

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CDMX-Quereterao-Irapuato-Guadalajara-Tepic-Mazatlan, ending in Nogales at the border. Mexico is going to be further ahead than the US and Canada both by 2028-29.
 
MindzEye said:
Detroit is 150km closer to Toronto than Montreal is, and has the same metro population.

Also, to be clear, the list is comparing those city pairs to Madrid-Valencia. A super high frequency route in Spain. Toronto-Montreal is way more theoretically viable (assuming similar ticket prices, frequency, comfort, etc) than Madrid to Valencia is. They're very compatible....it's just that Toronto-Detroit are only 370km apart.
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Detroit is a lot closer, so just when you plug in those values they show up better. While Toronto-Montreal is close enough to make HS work, they're starting to get far enough away that they're not quite as good for HS as closer in. Even a decent HS link between the 2 is still like a 2.5 hour journey, maybe even 3hr if it ends up with a couple stops along the way or is the 200kph HS, so you start getting long enough on that that some business travelers would opt for the flight over the train. Toronto-Montreal is probably closer to Madrid-Barcelona, which is a 3hr train ride.

Toronto-Montreal is obviously better than Tor-Det since you avoid the border crossing, and if you align the routes, you probably "gain" more by having the HS train stop in Kingston and Ottawa (although Toronto-Detroit would have stops in KW and London which would have decent riderships in an idealized world).

Canada and the US basically have Croatia level of train service. At least give me German level of service, even with the terrible delays they have.
 
mbow30 said:
no diff between saying Windsor and Detroit.

Windsor to Montreal makes too much sense. Go straight to Quebec City if needed to make the frenchies happy.

Turning the KW-Guelph-Milton corridor into Toronto suburbs is such an obvious way to address our housing issues.
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Kw-Guelph-milton need a good go train line. Same with service to st catherines.
 
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