Why not spend that money creating their own dedicated tracks? Then they don’t have to compete with the frieght trains of the greedy rail companies. I feel like that would make the biggest difference to their operations rather than adding more trains to overloaded, old rail tracks.
$2B wouldn’t build very much rail. Taking into account all of the prep, equipment, labour costs, etc. $2B won’t go very far. Building rail is not easy or cheap.
Why not spend that money creating their own dedicated tracks? Then they don’t have to compete with the frieght trains of the greedy rail companies. I feel like that would make the biggest difference to their operations rather than adding more trains to overloaded, old rail tracks.
$2B wouldn’t build very much rail. Taking into account all of the prep, equipment, labour costs, etc. $2B won’t go very far. Building rail is not easy or cheap.
For comparison: 18km of highway expansion (adding more lanes to an existing highway) in Ontario had an estimated contract cost of $639.8 million.
https://www.infrastructureontario.ca/en/what-we-do/projectssearch/highway-401-expansion-project/