No. The question has to do with a second train. If we didn't have the Olympics as a pressure point, we'd still not have the second train. The second train, which is being bought and paid for by the taxpayers of Washington State, doubles Vancouver's capacity on passenger rail along the corridor.
There are two separate issues. One is the second train, marketing the second train and keeping the second train going as a way of building customers and clients and getting people off cars and on to rail. The second issue is how we speed up the train along the route. A major uncertainty on time for service is the border.
There are two big barriers. There's the lack of certainty in Canada about making the necessary infrastructure investments to be full partners with Washington State. We have not been full partners. We've been recipients of the gift of trains from the taxpayers of Washington State. We need to stand up as full partners. As a part of that, one of the big blockages on time for service is that, depending on how many people are on the train and what happens at the border that day, it can take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour to get through the border. That's a big block on the service side.
There are many other areas. The problem with the swing bridge that goes over the Fraser River is that it is 102 years of age and there's a navigational right of way for barges. If there's a barge coming down the Fraser River, the trains have to stop. With right of way, the barge goes first and you have to wait. You can't really control when the barges come or go because they protect their right of way.
You have two options. You have to either go over at elevation or build a tunnel. To go over at elevation, the estimated cost is $800 million. To build a tunnel is about $1 billion. Transport Canada, in their wisdom, I think, are looking at marrying up together.... There's a new Pattullo Bridge going to cross the Fraser River. Can we match and get some economies of scale by putting the train bridge and the car bridge together?
In either case, it's a complex process from a rail point of view. It's going to take some serious study. To get elevation, you need a mile on either side of the bridge. You need a lot of land swaps and that sort of thing.