I'm sorry but this is a stupid idea. It will be so expensive to ride this. Only rich people will be able to afford it. It will be underused.
They should spend the money on INTRA city travel. Expand the subway systems in Toronto and Montreal.
They should spend the money on INTRA city travel. Expand the subway systems in Toronto and Montreal.
If the price is around that of an equivalent airplane flight, I don’t see the problem here.
How expensive to ride do you expect it to be? You have a reason to believe it will cost significantly more than an airplane flight?
For Ontario it's on Metrolinx and for Toronto TTC. Just in November TTC got roughly $750m in fed funding for subway cars especially for Line 2 cars that are reaching EOL, but also for the expansion lines in Scarborough and Yonge North.
Outside of Montreal you can get a bit a mixed reception to english, but there's no real hatred. Just pride in their own culture and a bit of fear about the ongoing loss of that which is probably reasonable.