In this election, Canada's Green Party has a transit expansion agenda

See "Greens to call for twinning of many of Canada's rail lines" from the Toronto Globe & Mail. Canada has an election going on too.

(I had an e-argument with a DC Statehood-Green Party member last week, which really disgusted me, because he advocated, perhaps without realizing it, a pro-car agenda. A Maryland Green Party member at the Takoma Park Folk Festival made a good point, that the Greens have a double agenda, one on social justice, the other on green-environment issues, and it is a constant struggle to get all members to recognize and reconcile both strains of the movement. So I guess I have to give the guy a pass. DC's Statehood Party is more about social justice than it is about what I call "built environmental justice.")

From the article:

Specifically, Green Leader Elizabeth May is expected to call for the twinning of many of the country's rail lines to get people and freight off the roads and onto the rails.

The platform argues there is significant potential for reducing Canada's greenhouse-gas emissions by having separate rail lines for freight and passengers. It is estimated that building high-speed passenger rail lines between key cities such as Toronto and Montreal would cut travel times in half and make a train trip faster on some routes than taking a plane.

Also see this piece, "Get Your Class War On" from the Wall Street Journal, about the U.S. election.