And horses but no one wants to go back to them either.

Lol like in Europe and select Asian countries.

you relize the ab gov has been talking about this since at least ralphie boy. smoke and mirrors people, to distract for messing with your voting rights voting rights, THE VERY PILLAR OF DEMOCRACY take that away and we are just RUBES, Election interference!!

Already obsolete with the invention of the 750 mph zero emission, zero energy Air Sledd.....rlmao

I would love to ride a train

why?

@@andiman45 Why what? Trains? Banff? Jasper? Reasonable ticket prices? Families?

@@TenthCrane2788 What do families have to do with this? I just dont want them to lose money..

@@andiman45 Do you want a train to Banff and Jasper to exclude families? That's not very nice.

@@TenthCrane2788 to be honest Im not crazy about trains to national parks jasper and banff unless they are passing thru like via rail. Busy enough there. Calgary to Edmonton a must tho.. Time, Co2 and fuel saving vs cars and planes a big benefit.

But we didn't ride the trains when we had them. We preferred our cars. And planes. That's why there aren't (hardly) any trains anymore.

I remember trains!! When I was young we used to take the train from Red Deer to Calgary. Loved it!!! We used to take the train from Calgary to Vancouver ! The fare was $25

​@lesliemacmillan9932 It was buses that took over from trains in Alberta, before cars took over from buses . And, finally, even Greyhound gave it up.

@@margyeoman3564 Greyhound was less interested in moving people than in padding the bottom line. They only left the low population, spread out west, not the lucrative east. Basic Infrastructure, like everyone, not just people who can afford new cars and planes, being able to access all parts of the province should be a first priority, maybe even before another round of doctor and teacher raises. Maybe everyone should have clean, affordable and ample water, an also proper sanitary and waste treatment and handling. We need to start building the basics of a province before we go so crazy on AI and EV and DEI.

Doesn't Canada have Via-Rail? Just a mixed up and divided country, can't ever get anything practical and efficient done here.

Via rail enters the chat.....

It really wouldn't. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and honestly who rides trains, Via rail has been struggling for decades. They are expensive to maintain and cost more than just driving or flying

​@@babyrakesno one used it because it doesn't go anywhere currently. My friend lives in Calgary and rode the train from Edmonton to 30 minutes north of Brandon, MB to visit his dad. He has to drive to Edmonton to catch the Via because it doesn't go through Calgary. And the terminal he was dropped at was just a stop on the tracks with a building. No terminal and he had to schedule his dad to pick him up. So the train doesn't embark from where he lives and dropped him off in the middle of nowhere. It simply is not convenient to ride rail because no one has invested in passenger rail in this country. Mostly because we have cars. The number of people who have drivers licenses who shouldn't be driving is high and these people should be riding rail. Trusting these people with 2 tons travelling at 100 kmh is no longer feasible. No one respects the privilege to drive anymore.

@@TBonerton The issue is it used to go everywhere, but due to trains being expensive and slow people stopped using them and they started limiting services. Kinda like Greyhound busses. If it isn't profitable people just stop using them and they cut service to save costs. Trains can't compete with planes or even a car anymore.

it failed as a means of travel, so do it again. what is the definition of insanity again?

Yea and they got rid of it because it's expensive to maintain and nobody rides it

And the conservatives were the ones that killed it so let’s not give them too much praise here.

All of North America used to have standard passenger rail, but we threw them out when we developed cheap oil and cars.

@@PolarExpress-ql3nk We have very effective and standard passenger trains all throughout Ontario. Easy and cheap.

So you live in a very densely populated area. Think about the word dense.

@@BramStoked-uq4hp I love how you have to go off assuming everything about me to justify the hurt feelings. Nope, I grew up in a town of 35,000. We had access to passenger trains and could take them almost anywhere. Cope

@@AtlasCrafted The trains are little bit better for sure, but I have heard that the older lines that used to be active in all the areas has largely been shut down for over 50 years. People favored the car, and now we are slowly realizing that the staggering car usage won't be with us for much longer.

Not every modern country has figured out. Only China with reliability. Japanese one is standing still for decades and collecting dust.

Already obsolete with the invention of the 750 mph zero emission, zero energy Air Sledd.....rlmao

YES!

But the carbon tax doesn't generate any revenue. Most of it (supposedly) gets refunded. If you use carbon tax to pay for trains (or anything else) then you don't get your climate action plan money from the feds quarterly. You want a free lunch.

@@lesliemacmillan9932 Fossil fuel mafia fan spotted!

@@Grant_S_M It's you who are the mafia. You want to grab tax money for a vanity project, then force people to use it when other methods work better.

this electric power comes from? do they get to burn coal or nat gas for electricity ? or go nuclear ?

Public transport Is COMMUNISM! I don’t want COMMUNIST TRAINS in my province!

Would be nice. But outside major cities, it's difficult to provide an acceptable level of public transport that will pay its way in somewhere as relatively sparsely populated as Canada.

Public transit is absolutely awful and hugely expensive to build and to operate.

People are used to public transit in Europe because it's actually useful. The same thing absolutely cannot be said here in Canada

People would have adapted long ago, if it was there, but again 'could haves' and 'would haves' never gets anything done.....

Planes have been invented old timer

Take the Red Arrow bus, cheap, fast, convenient.

not really even a normal speed train is still just as fast or faster than highway speeds and even if driving is faster taking the train is way less stressful and u can do literally anything besides focusing on the road the entire time high speed rail would be great but even if it isn't it'd still be very useful and should be built

@@MeaLynk Why in the world would we want to waste money on old technology when the new tech is already widely available? This isn't so much about public transit as it is the UCP tightening our reliance on coal.

@@kachunkk Probably due to costs. High speed rail is projected to cost like 30M$ / km in Canada in comparison to some European countries spending 9-15M / km, and that estimate for Canada is honestly probably a generous one given how we usually do things.

It's not a priority. This will end up being another very costly boondoogle by the UCP, who has already made well over $80 billion in very costly debacles and mistakes. Alberta has an infrastructure debt that is now nearly $30 billion, or even more, that the Alberta PCs caused, in the early 1900s. That's a bigger priority. So are hospitals, schools, helping seniors, and looking after other core programs and services. In 2007, the Alberta PCs were considering getting a high speed train between Edmonton and Calgary, and that idea was opposed, because of the cost, other problems that would go along with it.

Imagine if we sold 25 million barrels of oil a day, instead of less than 5 million...

Alberta doesn't send any money to Ottawa. The Conservatives in Alberta wasted and lost exponential amounts of money on the most costliest debacles repeatedly, ever since Peter Lougheed was no longer the premier of Alberta. The UCP have already made well over $80 billion in very costly debacles and mistakes, and this will be another boondoogle for them. Alberta has an infrastructure debt that is now nearly $30 billion, or even more, because in the early 1990s, the Alberta PCs failed to properly upkeep infrastructure in Alberta. That's a bigger issue, as are hospitals, schools, help for seniors, a looming water shortage, and other core services.

Transfer taxes? All of Canada sends federal taxes to Ottawa, which then decides how to use these taxes in the form of transfer payments. A transfer tax is something quite different from what you think it is - and has nothing to do with transfer payments.

@@dwaynewladyka577 Same tune dwayne

Imagine Alberta separating and not being Canadians anymore

The reason Via rail doesn't have constant service is trains are expensive to maintain and nobody rides them anymore. This is the issue with this project. Alberta should be investing in a low cost airline carrier if anything. Trains are dead

2.5 Centuries behind China and Japan 3 Centuries behind Germany and UK

This lady has no vision,other than the blinkered view of a far right dictator.✌️

Worth noting, you can fit all of Europe into Canada but the population density is very different

@@waffles1ca oh please the north is empty

filthy Quebecer, passing judgement on us english-speakers, with our non-working transit systems

Leave it to an NDP supporter to assume that a steam train sitting in a museum is going to be pushed back into active service

“Coal engine” wth is a coal engine?

They are already dead. They are expensive to maintain, slow, and more expensive than planes to ride

The majority of the $15,000,000,000 is Honda money

Hopefully not…

Environmental? Not so sure, Alberta still generates electricity from coal (as well as other means )

And burn coal to generate electricity

She doesn't want your pension money, she just doesn't want Ontario, Quebec, nor Blackface to have your pension money, which they now do.

@@user-sm3ii5dk1u No, they don't. Everyone in Canada pays the same CPP pension contributions as everyone else, according to income. And everyone in Canada gets the same out as pension according to what they put in. What do Ontario or Quebec have to do with this? The answer is nothing, and Quebec has its own pension plan, which isn't doing as well. The CPP is by law kept at a distance from politicians, and is one of the best performing pension funds in the world. Where on earth do you get these notions from?

@@istvanglock7445 CPP invest almost nothing in western Canada. I didn't say anything about contributions, but they are also tilted eastward, but, enjoy your view.

​@@istvanglock7445The UCP lost $4 billion on a pension fund debacle. Also, the UCP are trying to force an Alberta Provincial Pension Plan upon Albertans, which has very little support, because it's a very bad idea.

@@dwaynewladyka577 And how much has the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund lost so far? Just pointing out this is not an isolate thing.

In the old days, Canada had snow removal trains to mitigate the snow. In Japan, many trains in the north have snow plows

Waagh waagh waagh, government please do everything for me.

Things get ruined by the Liberals from Eastern Canada, not by the UCP. As you can see by the migration patterns

When there is no alternative it isn't being "bent", it's the only way to get from one place to another.

Local buses should run every 1 minutes within a safe walk from every door, every hour of day and night. Intercity and town to town buses should run at least 4-6 times a day, every day. Trains should access every community at least twice each day. And, high speed, super high speed rail should link Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton and Fort McMurray. Imagine if home and work, wherever either is, is easily accessible. Oh, and all of those should not have fares or tickets. That is what infrastructure should be. A way for the population to be able to affordably do the things they need to do.

@@wheressteve The massive pickup trucks you see everywhere are not required to get from one place to another. They are a symptom of our diseased cultural relationship to personal vehicles.

@@wheressteve Even when there is, people still use their own car. People aren't being bent, it's the way they are.

​@@user-sm3ii5dk1utell us you don't understand economics without telling us you don't understand economics

Say no to being a muppet..

Alberta doesn't send money to Ottawa, or to other provinces. The UCP have only carried on with the fiscal ineptitude and poor planning that the Alberta PCs did, ever since Peter Lougheed was no longer the premier of Alberta. The UCP have already done well over $80 billion in very costly debacles and mistakes, so this will be another big boondoogle for them. When the Alberta PCs were in power, they had an idea of a high speed train between Edmonton and Calgary, and people didn't support the idea. In the early 1990s, the Alberta PCs failed to properly upkeep infrastructure in Alberta, which left Alberta with an infrastructure debt that is now nearly $30 billion, or even more. That's a bigger priority, as is hospitals, schools, helping the seniors, and other core issues.

How do you stop equalization payments? It's Ottawa that makes equalization payments, not Alberta.

You can thank Conservatives for the current transfer payment structure. Also, read a book and learn something about transfer payments before you come here and flap your UCP propaganda.

Equalization payments come from your federal income tax. The province never sees that money

Japan would like to see you in the principals office after school....

@@JayHammerCA was the principal's office built by China?

@@albback8176 nope, Germany also has some choice words for you

@@Ithoughtthiswasamerica I'm sure Germany has alot to say. But China built the world's largest hsr network in only 10 years, and has a nearly complete industrial production supply chain, and many competent engineers. So my choice words would be to either follow the road, or roll down the cliff.

Let's suppose Japan is 40 years behind China. We are about a century behind Japan. I'd say catching up to 40 years behind China, if it can actually be done without politics ruining the entire project and only a 5x cost overrun, would be worth it.

oil

Our great grand children's backs!

Tax teachers, social workers and nurses... they're overpaid lol, and make homeless help pound nails for tracks.

Us. Who else? $$$ ✌️❤️🇨🇦

@@user-sm3ii5dk1u Spoken like someone who has never met or spoken with anyone in any of those professions.. Get a grip and read a newspaper once in a while.