More High Speed Trains in the Future? Sure Hope So, But Don't Hold Your Breath (Say Is That A Way to Cut Down on CO2?)

So maybe there will, one day in the sweet by and by, a high speed train from Montreal to New York and/or Boston. Le Devoir reports today that one of the things that was agreed on at the meeting of Canadian premiers and US governors was the establishment of a group to study the possiblity.

Of course, there have been groups studying a high speed train in the Windsor-Quebec corridor for a long time: the Harper government trotted out the idea couple of years ago, but nothing much has happened since.

At the same time, Le Devoir reports that the permafrost limit has retreated 130 km north in Quebec since 1957. Is there a connection? Is it maybe time to get started on providing alternate, long-distance transportation. From a passenger's point of view, anyone who has traveled on the high speed trains in Europe would say YESSS!