While not a part of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first five “nation-building” major projects announced Sept. 11, Ottawa is committing to begin construction on high-speed rail between Toronto and Quebec City in the next four years. London Free Press reporter Jack Moulton takes a look at Southwestern Ontario’s troubled history with better rail service.

LONDON’S HISTORY WITH HIGH-SPEED RAIL

London and wider Southwestern Ontario have had a troubled history, even just in the past decade, with advocating for better rail service to the province’s capital city and beyond.

The London-region, one of the fastest-growing areas in the country, got the closest it had ever been to seeing it in 2018, when the then-Liberal provincial government initiated a $15-million study into laying down a rail line

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