From: petertdaniels@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 3:01:47 PM UTC-4, John Levine wrote:   
   > According to Peter T. Daniels :   
      
   > >> If they can get their act together, it's a good candidate for high    
   > >> speed rail. A lot of people drive or fly between Toronto, Montreal,    
   > >> and Quebec. Outside of the cities it's quite rural and pretty flat so    
   > >> building new high speed lines would not be hard.    
   > >Windsor to Toronto would be nice, too. I got to drive from Ann Arbor    
   > >to Toronto for an international meeting in 1990. (Couldn't have done    
   > >it direct from Chicago.)   
   >   
   > It's flat and rural, but it's a lot less busy than Toronto to    
   > Montreal. If they do Toronto to Montreal, the extension to Quebec is    
   > fairly short, under 250 km, and mandatory for political reasons. I'm a    
   > litle surprised they aren't talking about Ottawa, but I suppse nobody    
   > goes to Ottawa if they don't have to.   
      
   The have a nice Imperial War Museum.   
      
   > >My last visit to Canada was in 2000. They started requiring a passport    
   > >after 9/11; I'd gotten my first one back in '92.   
   >   
   > If you live in NY and don't have a passport, you can get an Enhanced    
   > Driver's License for $30 which lets you travel overland to Canada.    
   > I don't have one because for $50 I got a NEXUS card which is good    
   > for air travel too.   
      
   Even down here in Downstate? Presumably that was Cuomo looking    
   for republican votes in the Adirondacks or Erie County, but how did    
   he get a Federal waiver? Do all the border states have it?   
      
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