𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

Nothing’s been decided in terms of station location yet. That’s what the ongoing public consultations are for.

Protests have started against #Canada ‘s high-speed rail project. I dig deeper in this week’s HIGH SPEED newsletter:

www.highspeed.blog/not-in-my-ba...

The alternative to fast railways is more runways and highways—the most polluting forms of inter-city transport.

I take a look at the history of opposition to railways, going back to England in the 1830s, in this HIGH SPEED newsletter:

www.highspeed.blog/not-in-my-ba...

If you look back, every high-speed project, from Japan's original bullet train to #France's TGV, faced NIMBY protesters. (Winemakers claimed railway vibrations would wreck their grands crus!)

It's all part of the process of building ambitious infrastructure.

...but the media is foregrounding farmers, and conservative politicians, who want to derail the project.

The same has happened in #California, where litigious landowners have stalled high-speed rail, causing costs to skyrocket.

Protests have started against Alto, the low-emission, electric-powered high-speed rail project between #Quebec City and #Toronto.

According to Alto, the trains could carry 43M passengers, and bring $35B/yr in economic benefits to #Canada.

Many communities want a station...

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Covered Bridge #Photography

Protests have started against #Canada ‘s high-speed rail project. I dig deeper in this week’s HIGH SPEED newsletter:

www.highspeed.blog/not-in-my-ba...

The alternative to fast railways is more runways and highways—the most polluting forms of inter-city transport.

I take a look at the history of opposition to railways, going back to England in the 1830s, in this HIGH SPEED newsletter:

www.highspeed.blog/not-in-my-ba...

If you look back, every high-speed project, from Japan's original bullet train to #France's TGV, faced NIMBY protesters. (Winemakers claimed railway vibrations would wreck their grands crus!)

It's all part of the process of building ambitious infrastructure.

...but the media is foregrounding farmers, and conservative politicians, who want to derail the project.

The same has happened in #California, where litigious landowners have stalled high-speed rail, causing costs to skyrocket.

Protests have started against Alto, the low-emission, electric-powered high-speed rail project between #Quebec City and #Toronto.

According to Alto, the trains could carry 43M passengers, and bring $35B/yr in economic benefits to #Canada.

Many communities want a station...

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Each fine should be one percent of their operating ratio. Make it hurt the only number they care about.

Agreed!

(In the US, of course, the freight companies often ignore the law, and pay fines over delayed Amtrak trains, making the penalties part of their operating costs.)

I share Lloyd’s frustration. (Though I’ll continue to take VIA Rail.) Passenger trains in Canada need to have legal precedence over freights, as they do in the US. And we need to start building Alto high-speed rail, which will run on a dedicated line, in Ontario and Quebec.

Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency. Let's do that now. - Streetsblog Chicago "The government had to introduce car-free Sundays. And then people realized that the car-free Sunday was the best day of the week."

FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city

Texte de Marco Fortier dans @ledevoir.com sur l' #autobésité au Québec

« Le parc de véhicules de promenade a augmenté de 53 % au Québec de 1990 à 2023 — une hausse près de 2 fois celle de la croissance démographique (+ 29 %) [...] VUS et les camionnettes, dont le nombre a bondi de 382 % »

If these regions had also opposed highways that cut across and pollute their land, I think they’d have a better case to make.

I think the prevalence of religious fundamentalism in a nation—much higher in US than in Canada—also plays a role.

Those outside one's faith group often get classed as intrinsically "immoral."

Of course. But I can't think of any death-from-above campaigns Canada has initiated. Going back to WWI, we joined military campaigns, but didn't start them.

Except—and this is a big but—against First Nations. And there, Canada's record is shockingly bad.

(And it might explain why you never read about Canada dropping bombs on people in other countries.)

Majority of Americans see fellow citizens as morally bad — but Canadians are the opposite Most Americans see other American as morally bad, while less then 1 in 10 Canadians feel the same about their fellow Canucks, a new survey from the Pew Research Center found.

That might be the biggest difference. As a nation, we're inclined to think that—when it comes right down to it—other people are pretty decent.

"Majority of Americans see fellow citizens as morally bad —but only one in 10 Canadians feel the same about other Canadians"

www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/ar...

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."

Le pouvoir du cachet :) F. Luchini, qui s’épanchait contre la politique de mobilité de Paris, se retrouve sur un Vélib sur des affiches partout dans la ville, juste avant le premier tour des municipales.

Amtrak could begin Madison rail service as early as 2030 The service would be an extension of the existing Chicago-to-Milwaukee Hiawatha Service and include stops in Pewaukee, Watertown and Madison.

"The new service would be an extension of the existing Chicago-to-Milwaukee Hiawatha Service and include stops in Pewaukee, Watertown and Madison."
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

a black and white British Rail poster titled "The argument for electrifying our railways, will become clearer in time." with four panels showing scenes from 1978, 1987, 1995 and 2005 with oil running out over that period

"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time."
British Rail, 1979.

Odea | Lemay - Architecture and design The architecture of Montreal, Quebec’s Odea condominium tower explores Cree identity.

Montreal's Indigenous Architecture, Odea by Douglas Cardinal & Lemay

The sky’s the limit: The Squamish project that’s reshaping Vancouver An 11-tower development on reclaimed Squamish Nation territory represents a path to economic independence. Not everyone’s happy about it

and here's a gift link to the G&M feature (20 free reads)

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1dda011...