I would have been able to walk from our farm to catch an electric passenger train to Brantford and connect to Toronto. I walk by the rotting electrical poles every day on the asphalt rail trail.

Prior to automobiles, this makes sense. Once vehicles came along en masse, tracks gave way to roads and highways. In the future, if another revolutionary means of travel comes along, our present day roads will seem as chaotic as this rail map.

Endorse. Build it.

The village I live in (SE of Fergus) was a bustling hub when the train went through here. Shops, post office, hotel. Now it’s an intersection with three street lamps lol.

We've got a whole museum inside the old Grand Trunk station dedicated to this in Palmerston! Worth a Saturday visit in the summer while the farmers market is going on.