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I would first like to thankyou for your intrest in this subject, yours is an interesting question. Secondly I would like to appologize in advance for my very bad spelling. Sorry for the pain it may cause you The Government of Canada has commited some $40 billion dollars to the railroad infrustructure, as per the kyoto accords, feb. 24th 2003. Inculded in this finnacial commitment has been the talk of the VIAfast. Currently, ridership in the quebec city- windsor corridor is up considerably since 9-11. Although the tragic events of this horrible day may have resulted in many people trying the train for the first time for buissness travel, the service staff on board (tooting my own horn of course) and the downtown to downtown convience of the train made a large percentage of those clients return., It has been an exciting time to be working for the railroad. Your question pertaining to WHO would be traveling....mainly the buissness traveller, although to begin with, I expect there would be a few tourrists, currious about it. Currently VIA runs an express train between Toronto and Montreal which takes 3hrs.59min. It is the most popular train because of the time of departure and because of the shorter travel time. It will never break even finnacially, however, attracting people to travel by train instead of by car and plains is an environmental factor which a responsible forshadowing government needs to do. Although train travel is capable of attracting buisness travellers who travel between busy city centres, the train can of course never replace the plain for long distance voyages. So rest assured we still need airlines. In my opinion, however, it is more finacially desperate to invest in airtravel over shorter distances. To build a high speed rail track would take a very long time (we are talking ten + years). Until special tracks have been layed, we will not be seeing a high speed train. In all likly hood, if we do get it, it will run from Toronto to Montreal, maybe including Ontawa and Quebec City, but not Windsor, Sarnia and Niagra Falls. Hope this helps
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