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Screw The York U Subway, Howsabout a Monorail?
We were intrigued by an idea brought up by David Ross on the Reading Toronto site of a high speed train to Montreal. Shanghai has one that takes people from a suburban airport to downtown Shanghai in five minutes. Torontoist has taken this ride in a cab and trust us, it’s LOOONG and congested. It currently takes about five hours by train to get to Montreal, a high speed train could do this in one.
Think about it. In the same time it took you to go to York U you could be sipping beers on St. Laurent. This would pretty much kill all flights from Montreal to Toronto and we think that’s a good thing. Going to Pearson is always a pain in the butt. And think of the improvements in air quality if we reduce airplane traffic. Ross points out that a lot of places in the states are looking into it and if VIA operated this it would drastically increase their ridership.