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On the Ontario Northland website, leaving tomorrow, Toronto to Timmins is $160.40 firm or $182.05 flexible. That tells me that they are pricing it around the same.
How many can fit in the truck?
6 legally.
And that is the baseline ticket price if you book on the day of travel, if you book 4+ days in advance it’s supposed to be a little bit cheaper
Interesting. I get the sense that the ONTC historically considered themselves 'sort of' federally regulated. It looks like CTA is hanging their hat on the fact that the inter-provincial Nipissing Central is federal therefore everything tied to it is as well.For those who care about the legalese ONTC had to pursue to secure authority to resume pax service, here's the CTA decision
- Paul
The province's media relations department botched the announcement of the ticket fares. The ONR's website has a much better explanation. If you book your tickets 96 hours in advance, a ticket from North Bay to Toronto can be as cheap as 85$ each way. Not bad if you ask me, considering the price of gas, wear and tear on your vehicle, traffic, parking and accommodations of you stayed overnight in Toronto. Not to mention the ability not to have to focus on the road for hours on end.
Still, the fact that a ticket price will be close to the existing bus fare is actually a win for riders. Had it been much higher it may have suffered from low ridership. With the fare being that close, this will be a true test of whether people really want the train, or whether it was a case of not having it was the only reason to want it.
And as someone who lives in Huntsville Station’s catchment area, I can see myself using the service once maybe twice a year at most, and I can see my journeys down to Toronto being Rail there and bus back or even one way for whatever reason. Based on the planned ticket prices. Tickets from Huntsville will be approximately $60-$80 if bought early or around $90 day of and that’s just economy. Once again I see a lot of trips on this leg of the route being rail there/bus back or vice versa.
For the closer stations, that makes sense. For the further ones, especially in winter, I'll bet rail will be more popular. There is a perception that the train will be safer, regardless of whether it will be or not.
www.thestar.com
.. wasn't me...I hope that this train is a success, that the economy class is kept affordable, and that they do add a business class as well as eventually a sleeper option, each with less of a subsidy than the economy class.
Anyway, at least one person has penned an opinion piece calling to extend it westward along the Great Lakes as far as Kenora!
"Doug Ford’s hype over this renewed rail line is well earned. But it could be the beginning of something even better"
Doug Ford’s hype over this renewed rail line is well earned. But it could be the beginning of something even better
There are little-used railway tracks all over Northern Ontario. Why don’t they carry passenger traffic?
