High-speed Rail In Canada? - Thursday!
Yo, what is good? I know I’m a little tilted; the snow makes the floor very uneven. Anyway, it’s Thursday! Hope you guys are having a dope-ass Thursday! Man, I feel like someone in the government is watching these videos because yesterday, the Trudeau and Liberal government announced a proposal to look into designing high-speed rail between Toronto and Quebec City. And I was like, yeah, because remember on that Delta flight from like, Monday or something, we were talking about that? So clearly, it was our idea that they brought up the thing with high-speed rail.
This is where I get real: we’ve been talking about this since, like, 1999 was the earliest I remember. It’s just one of those common-sense things. So, if they started doing this in, like, 1999, it would have been done by now! The proposal by the Trudeau government and the Liberal government isn’t that they’re going to build it; it’s that they’re going to do a design consultation and they’re looking into building it. And they estimate it at $3 billion or $6 billion, and someone said probably double that, so $6 billion. Then, estimates from, like, previous project designs in other areas had some similar distances at almost $30 billion. So, there are a lot of big numbers being thrown around with no real action plan yet.
Part of the whole thing is it sounds great; I would love to see it, but they also put a caveat saying, you know, any future government can cancel it. It’s a design phase, so if the number comes back too high, they’re just going to be like, ‘Well, we tried.’ So it’s this dangling of a carrot that I wish wasn’t so much a carrot so much as it was something that was actually being done. And people are like, ‘Well, we can’t start if we don’t do this design, so this is step one.’ I don’t know, man, like the 413 was something that came up back in the early 2000s, and it took 20 years, 24 years, before it actually, like, manifested into construction and, like, land being bought and all that kind of stuff.
So, high-speed rail, 25 years, 30 years from now, probably going to be a reality. But I don’t know, I am happy that we’re going this route, that we’re actually paying attention to doing something like this, but I’m also very skeptical of, like, damn, are y’all going to do it, or are you just dangling this carrot again? Because stop dangling carrots, man! Just get this thing done! We need it; we need this kind of freaking investment in our country. We need high-speed rail connecting our metropolitan areas so that, you know, it makes it easy for people to get around, and it’s not just about you have to take a flight. I don’t know, that’s my thoughts on that, man. Hopefully, you guys are having a dope-ass day. Real question is, do you guys think we’re going to see this in our lifetimes? I don’t know how old y’all are. If you guys are in your 20s, maybe. If you’re in your 40s, eh. If you’re in your 60s, hey, just know your grandkids might have high-speed rail! Anyway, till the next one, man. Take it easy. Peace!
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