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Getting serious amateur-hour vibes from #Alberta government's Rail Passenger Master Plan initiative. They're talking about high-speed rail, which will cost tens of billions to build. Yet their investment over the next 3 years is $15 million. The cartography alone... www.alberta.ca/passenger-rail

Taras Grescoe 🚇

@taras-grescoe.com

If it's a high-speed connection covering 300 km, it's not regional rail; it's inter-city rail. (Words matter.)

9/6/26, 9:11 pm1 repost10 likes

JackTatt 🇨🇦

@jacktatttran.bsky.social

10 June

To be fair, Australia also uses the term regional rail for those distances not intercity rail. The Xplorer from Sydney to Canberra is called a regional train, the much shorter trip from Sydney to Newcastle is called an Intercity train. So Alberta is just being Australian.