I’ve said it before but regional rail is 10X (at least) more important than HFR/intercity in terms of growing ridership, passenger kms, and getting cars off the road. Modern, 150-200kmh GO lines from TO to KWCG, P’Boro, London, Port Hope-Kingston, NF, etc would be the real game changer

That 300km radius around TO is where most of the growth in Ontario is happening as well. Even the part of the Lakeshore corridor that HFR will likely skip (Pickering-Kingston-ON/QC border) has around 1 mil ppl (Port Hope-Kingston alone could be 500K in 15-20 years). So many missed opportunities