The Americans were very specific on this. Their goal, first of all, and I think it was reflected in Mr. Gilbert's comments, is to increase the frequency so that they would double the service between Vancouver and Seattle. Their application for a high-speed corridor lacks some coherence without the willingness on our part to facilitate the extra train.
The second thing is to improve on-time performance, but there are 10 to 15 minutes of savings available just by streamlining customs clearance. If passengers were able to check in and go through customs and immigration before they got on the train, as they would on an airplane, that would help. I'm told that on the American side the U.S. authorities still stop the train and go through to check on their side as the train proceeds into the United States. So if we opened the door on our side, they could perhaps change their security arrangements, not to reduce them but to streamline them a bit, and we would save quite a bit of time simply on that measure.
We carpooled down for this trip. We were about three hours. The train trip now is about four. So simply making those changes, without too many more investments, would start to bring the travel time close to what you experience with a regular border delay.