High Frequency Rail is not a pragmatic solution, even if you’re trying to get bang for buck.

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[1] https://emergingeurope.com/news/uzbe...
[2] http://croa.com/PDFAWARDS/CR3044.pdf
[3] https://www.viarail.ca/sites/all/file... $12.5 million in 2007
[4] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... no crossing exceeds 100mph = 160,934 kph
[5] 152 on the subbranch from Ottawa to the CP line, 30 on the Alex branch between CP and CN, 14 on CN until the island, 2 on Ile Perot, 4 on Montreal
[6] https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2... 5 crossings 387 million = 80 million
[7] https://goo.gl/maps/rWKDBQjzW1SE742h7
[8] https://web.archive.org/web/201107062...
[9] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j2i... 2:27 “we’re talking about Toronto Ottawa Montreal, not the fullness of Quebec Windsor... strictly Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal as the first phase to profitability and then expansion by other generations”
[10] https://www.pppcouncil.ca/web/Events/...
[11] https://www.thestar.com/business/econ... “VIA Rail is looking at raising $3 billion in private investment to buy and build its own dedicated passenger tracks from Toronto to Ottawa and Montreal”
[12] https://corpo.viarail.ca/en/projects...
[13] https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/rel... 3.69 billion
[14] https://montrealgazette.com/news/queb... Costs 6 billion now, but that’s not true
[15] https://www.viarail.ca/sites/all/file... “Purchase of 10 miles of rail to the easy and west of Ottawa station from Canadian National and Canadian Pacific”
[16] CP line is 26km, CN is 31km.
[17] Cp line to island: 8 crossings. 30 VIA + 14 CN (Then 6 on the Ile perot + Mtl).
[18] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... (OTTMTL leg)
[19] QGIS
[20] $55M per km
[21] Counting from alexandria junction branch to the Casselman cutoff corner
[22] 17 on CP, and 4 new ones. Now at 84 crossings.
[23] Ottawa to new line (48), new line (4), CP to Alex Junction (17) Alex Junction to Islands (8) Perot (2) Montreal (5) = 84
[24] 17 private crossings, 30 merged.
[25] Confirmed, 17
[26] https://farmtario.com/news/farmersfe... famers being pressued by CP
[28] 18 Ottawa New Line, 2 new line
[29] 20 crossings x $80 million = 1.6
[30] https://media.viarail.ca/en/pressrel... 30 million each a few years ago, 30*5
[31] The crossings are rated to 60mph = 96kph for freight
[32] 71
[33] https://goo.gl/maps/Xyuhh8oDCi4Q3vsWA
[34] https://www.transports.gouv.qc.ca/fr/...
[35] 1.6 billion (VIA Crossings), 0.175 (Trainsets), 0.66 (Cutoff)
[36] 10 Between cutoff and islands, 7 on islands
[37] https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/rel... 3 billion 2015, 3.68 billion 2023. But construction is much higher than consumer price inflation over that time.
[38] 17 x 80 = 1.360
[39] 176 x 6.62 = $1.161
[40] 25km * 55 = 1375 million
[41] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
[42] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/... 4.3 + 1.5
[43] 40 million / 6.5 million
[44] 18 x 55m 990 million.
[45] 6.62 x 176km = 1165,12
[46] 550 km / 200kph = 2.75 hours + 0.5
[47] https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/... “There is more of an opportunity for growth than there is a risk of downsizing, he told Railway Age during an interview in his downtown Montreal offices, a few subterranean steps away from the city’s cavernous Central Station.”
[48] https://media.viarail.ca/sites/defaul...