From his offices on the 34th floor of 1 Place Ville Marie, Martin Imbleau has a nearly panoramic view of Montreal. Clearly in view are Central Station and Victoria Bridge, which are both essential to passenger and freight traffic through the city.
MONTREAL - From his offices on the 34th floor of 1 Place Ville Marie, Martin Imbleau has a nearly panoramic view of Montreal.
“If you go to the Gare Centrale or Union Station or even the Gare du Palais in Quebec , you realize that on the last segment to reach those train stations the trains go fairly slowly. So it really affects your journey time,” Imbleau, CEO of Via HFR Inc. - an arm's-length subsidiary of the passenger rail Crown corporation - said in an interview.
Imbleau noted that the average speed of some trains deemed high-speed in Europe, such as France's 600-kilometre Paris-Montpellier route, notch below 200 km/h and takes well over three hours. High-speed rail lines demand full-grade separation at road crossings, potentially requiring hundreds of millions of dollars for construction of dozens of overpasses and underpasses. Inrural areas, this also requires drainage pumps, which in turn can require generators, piling onto maintenance costs.
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