Ottawa finally thinks big on high-frequency rail in Quebec City-Toronto corridor
Ottawa finally seems serious about modernizing passenger-rail service in the Quebec City-Toronto corridor, with plans to introduce faster trains on dedicated tracks advancing to the request-for-proposals stage of Canada’s biggest transportation megaproject in decades.to submit proposals to build and operate a high-frequency rail network that would slash travel times in the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto triangle by as much as a third. A winning bid will be chosen in mid-2024.
Federal cabinet minister Pablo Rodriguez said last week the HFR project envisioned by his government is “four to five times bigger” than Montreal’s Réseau Express Métropolitain light-rail transit system, the first leg of which is set to begin service on July 31. That would put the price tag for HFR at $30-billion to $40-billion, an estimate neither Mr. Rodriguez nor Omar Alghabra dared confirm. Some experts think it could be even higher.
The REM’s developer, CDPQ Infra, the infrastructure arm of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, initially promised that the tunnel would accommodate both REM and HFR trains, but that proved technically unfeasible.
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