M. Grégoire
@ink_slinger @msh Trains are great; best way to travel. But the way Canadian cities are distributed and built, planes and cars are probably more feasible ways for inter-urban travel.
LRT systems do make sense for the larger cities.
Tramways, OTOH, have no advantage I can think of over buses. Not sure why cities want to build new tramways.
M. Grégoire
@msh @ink_slinger I should add that the Québec City-Windsor corridor, with its frequent cities, heavily-populated central cores, and existing downtown stations and right-of-ways is the Canadian exception, where inter-urban passenger rail is practical. Indeed VIA says that the corridor is profitable [0].
[0] They probably exclude capital costs.
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