It really seems like Canada and america are simply too stupid to build infrastructure that doesn’t suck. You just don’t put anything in the empty spaces apart from a fast line connecting bigger groupings of cities, and within the cities add skytrain track like greater vancouver but have tracks to all the areas that are currently realistically only accessible by car. So many transit commutes require overshooting and bussing back, and I have worked or know people that have worked jobs with start and finish times that never line up with transit and require leaving early and waiting up to an hour and a half, or being late by nearly as much.
We really need it with how rush hour is continually getting worse. My local rush hour has gone from 5:30pm-6:30pm when I first started driving, to 2:00pm-7:30pm now. I’m so done with 2 hours of unpaid driving every day, especially now that it doesn’t even save me time over transit. I also know several people that are ‘ultra pro-car’ yet are too stupid to understand that getting people who don’t even want to drive off the road will make driving better for the people that do want to drive.
In short I figure both canadians and americans are just too subservient to big auto and our other corporate overlords to not only make any meaningful attempt to implement any kind of non freight railways, but also anything that would make life better in general.
Because Canada is really big and mostly empty.
I didn’t even need to read the article to figure that out. I just looked at a map.
So is Siberia and yet they have an electric railway.
It really seems like Canada and america are simply too stupid to build infrastructure that doesn’t suck. You just don’t put anything in the empty spaces apart from a fast line connecting bigger groupings of cities, and within the cities add skytrain track like greater vancouver but have tracks to all the areas that are currently realistically only accessible by car. So many transit commutes require overshooting and bussing back, and I have worked or know people that have worked jobs with start and finish times that never line up with transit and require leaving early and waiting up to an hour and a half, or being late by nearly as much.
We really need it with how rush hour is continually getting worse. My local rush hour has gone from 5:30pm-6:30pm when I first started driving, to 2:00pm-7:30pm now. I’m so done with 2 hours of unpaid driving every day, especially now that it doesn’t even save me time over transit. I also know several people that are ‘ultra pro-car’ yet are too stupid to understand that getting people who don’t even want to drive off the road will make driving better for the people that do want to drive.
In short I figure both canadians and americans are just too subservient to big auto and our other corporate overlords to not only make any meaningful attempt to implement any kind of non freight railways, but also anything that would make life better in general.