{"podcast":{"title":"Challenger Cities","slug":"challenger-cities-6959558","podcast_index_feed_id":6959558,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/challengercitytoronto/feed.xml","website_url":"https://challengercities.substack.com/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/challengercitytoronto/20241125_031154_12bb296aa546a7561a00033f0e685478.png","author":"Iain Montgomery","episode_count":88,"summary":"Iain Montgomery of Now or Never Ventures interviews urbanists, creatives, transit and development types to explore how cities can punch above their weight and create distinctive new futures outside of the tired playbooks.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T06:17:04.276818+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558"},"episode":{"title":"Challenger Cities EP85: Canada Needs a Railway Architect with Michael Schabas","slug":"challenger-cities-ep85-canada-needs-a-railway-architect-with-michael-schabas","published_at":"2026-06-08T11:47:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep85-canada-needs-a-railway-architect-with-michael-schabas","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/challengercitytoronto/2893179","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/278784/2893179/challengercitytoronto/2026_06_06_20_55_56_7aa59ba7-fccf-4ef3-a6bf-05f546f183fa.mp3","summary":"Canada is, well might be, building a high speed train. At long last after 50 odd years of talking about doing so. But concerningly, there is much negative noise around the project as it seems it might not really be learning the lessons for how successful projects have been delivered elsewhere, and where projects for building fast trains have gone wrong. This podcast is with Michael Schabas, a Canadian, who knows all about how to make these projects successful. It's a really honest and open conversation about how to build HSR, what Canada is missing just now, and how we can hopefully influence Alto to ensure we actually learn from how it's been done elsewhere. If you like the idea of HSR, or even if you actually think it's a bad idea, well you should probably listen to this episode and get a feel for yourself. Michael's work is also available to be found here: https://www.highspeedrailcanada.com/p/all-canadian-hsr-studies.html","meta_description":"Canada is, well might be, building a high speed train. At long last after 50 odd years of talking about doing so. But concerningly, there is much negative…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4121,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/challenger-cities-6959558/episodes/challenger-cities-ep85-canada-needs-a-railway-architect-with-michael-schabas/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep85-canada-needs-a-railway-architect-with-michael-schabas.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}