A big announcement for a future high speed rail between Windsor and Toronto.
Premier Kathleen Wynne says her government is committing $15-million towards an environmental assessment for the project.
She says Ontario's government is the first in Canada to undertake rail transformation on this scale.
High speed rail along the Toronto-Windsor corridor will connect people, cut travel time & create good jobs in Southwestern Ontario pic.twitter.com/tJ0hPhWRih
— Kathleen Wynne (@Kathleen_Wynne) May 19, 2017
Wynne made the announcement in London today.
"This has been talked about for decades," says Wynne. "Not a couple of years, not a few months, not one generation — at least two probably three generations so we've got to move ahead on this. There are private enterprises in London, Kitchener-Waterloo and Windsor who need this economic driver. They need to be able to bring people to their workplaces and create jobs on the basis of there being connectivity along this corridor."
Trains on the planned rail link would get up to speeds of 250 km/hr, which would cut travel time from Windsor to Toronto in half.