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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
It's not much different than trying to go from Mendoza to Mar del Plata in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
Canada would have similar issues in trying to host the World Cup. As much as I laugh at it, ther are reasonably serious in pursuing the 2026 World Cup. Air travel in Canada is expensive and we're talking a huge country. It's probable that Montreal and Vancouver would be cities for a tournament. So let's look at your options for return trips between the two cities:
Plane: $807CDN (it's a seven hour flight)
Train: $1,644CDN(it'll take four complete days of travel time one way)
Automobile: 4,909km (two complete days if you never really stop and you have to drive through the United States for that short a route)
“Since there are no highways to the city, those who aren’t willing to spend days traveling up the Amazon by boat will rely on Brazil’s overstretched air transportation system, taking a four-hour flight that costs about $400 from Rio de Janeiro. One recent trip by air from Manaus to the coastal city of Natal, another World Cup city, required three stops and took more than 10 hours.”
The logistics of travel in Brazil are not that bad.
Regina could also be a potential host city since they will have the newest FIFA-ready stadium (2017 opening) with no passenger train service and a metro area of 200,000 people. There are also not enough hotels here for the amount of tourists that would come.
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I travel frequently between Vancouver and Ottawa or Calgary and sometimes I wish sooooo much that Canada had a High Speed Train like in Europe.
