{"id":25934,"date":"2026-04-30T09:53:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/25934\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:53:01","slug":"alto-high-speed-rail-toronto-area-might-get-2-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/25934\/","title":{"rendered":"Alto high speed rail: Toronto area might get 2 stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Front Bench panel discusses Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre&#8217;s recent criticisms of the proposed Alto high-speed rail project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MONTREAL \u2014 The head of the country\u2019s high-speed rail project says the Greater Toronto Area could be home to two stations rather than one as previously planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In an interview with The Canadian Press, Alto chief executive Martin Imbleau said the GTA \u201cwill probably require a secondary station,\u201d though no final decision has been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He says the station would likely sit in a nearby suburb, attracting more passengers from the surrounding region and allowing access to the line while construction on the costlier final leg into downtown Toronto is completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">So far, the federal government has mandated seven stops: Toronto, Peterborough, Ottawa, Laval, Que., Montreal, Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, Que., and Quebec City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The proposed network would host 72 trains a day running on dedicated electric tracks at speeds breaching 300 km\/h, slashing current travel times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, the project has garnered backlash from a grassroots coalition of farmers and small-town residents as well as the federal Conservatives, who say the rail corridor would cleave communities and offer locals few benefits while costing taxpayers billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Front Bench panel discusses Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre&#8217;s recent criticisms of the proposed Alto high-speed rail project.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[525,1720,48,2176],"class_list":{"0":"post-25934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-construction","10":"tag-toronto","11":"tag-transport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}