> > Well, I'm sure I'll be corrected by someone in the Mother Country if I'm > wrong, but I think there are several express trains and a controlled access > highway between London and Glascow, so that the travel time, either by train > or car, is the same as it is between Montreal and Toronto. > > I don't think it's as much about time, as it is about us North Americans > being used to larger distances. London to Glascow is the length of Britain. > Montreal to Toronto is a about 1/10th Canada from coast to coast.
Oh, quite. You can fit the UK inside California with room to spare. (That's another 400 mile reference trip - Los Angeles to San Francisco) But you can't really compare Canada to the UK for transport, anyway. For a start Canada has been called a "country three thousand miles long and twenty miles wide". That's a bit of an exaggeration, but it's hard to have a route between large towns that doesn't use the main East-West transport corridor.
