I will be flying from Vancouver (YVR) to Seattle (SEA) tomorrow to connect to another flight. This half hour flight is absolutely ridiculous.
Because the three main PNW airports are near the city center and are connected to local public transit, they would be awesome #HighSpeedRail terminals. Rather than flying to get to a connecting flight, I wish I could reasonably take the #train.
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The Cascadia Rail project would be an amazing piece of infrastructure for all 3 cities!
Currently, the #Vancouver to Bellingham #railway route is crowded with freight trains, full of old bridges that need to be crossed slowly, bottlenecked by a single track used in both directions.
I have heard mumblings of the Vancouver's waterfront stn being transformed to a highspeed rail platform, but if #HSR made it to Surrey's Scott Road, YVR or Richmond's Bridgeport, that would still be fine.
Mark Ingalls
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