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Have you ever missed out on the chance to propose something profoundly stupid? Almost every single of the 4,471 comments you‘ve written in less than 8 years clearly suggests otherwise… Please find yourself a different thread and forum to spam with your brainfarts and disdain for actually...

That‘s not the problem. The vast geographic size is unfortunately the problem here: whereas in all European countries, it is viable to travel by rail across the country and the construction of just a few HSR lines will benefit cities far beyond these HSR lines, people in Western places like...

I‘m just connecting the dots: When GO struggles to attract passengers from London at an ungodly early hour, you demand that they put the arrival even earlier. When VIA gears the Canadian towards tourists, you demand that they destroy any utility for tourists (i.e., the only customer group...

No, you hate passengers and that‘s why you keep obsessing about running passenger services where they could never provide a viable alternative to cars, buses or planes. You only measure success in train miles offered, whereas everyone else would measure it in passenger miles or cost-recovery...

How often do we have to debunk this BS? The only way by which CN would possibly accept any financial penalties is by setting their rates so high that they are guaranteed their desired revenues even if the penalties accumulate to the contractually agreed cap. VIA‘s TSA payments are simply too...

In order to be competitive against the car or the airplane, you need an infrastructure which is maintained for Track Class 5 (or more). However, given that the freight railroads are content with the 60 mph (96 km/h) limit of Track Class 4 (or even less than that) for their own freight trains...

Tracks can only be abandoned after successfully filing an abandonment request, at which point VIA could buy the line for scrap value…

I have no idea (though the year of acquisition will tell you which government paid for it), but a transfer of ownership does not by itself constitute an investment in infrastructure…

Regarding the idea of a “Provincialization of intercity rail” (assuming that any province could possibly be tempted into taking over the finacial responsibility for VIA services), here is a list of VIA’s current routes and the respective provinces they serve: Corridor services: QBEC-MTRL: QC...

Some people here don’t seem to have the faintest grasp of fiscally conservative policies. The key demands regarding CBC are summarized in the article as follows: With the only segments of VIA’s operations which can be said to directly compete with the private sector (Corridor services, which...

Not sure I follow, are we still talking about that rant/blogpost from Jake Langan you posted?

There may be the ambition to eventually provide Chicago-Detroit-Toronto through services, but all of the plans I am aware of and which acknowledge the sensitivies of the relevant border protection agencies assume a cross-border facility in either Detroit or Windsor…

To the best of my knowledge, there is no intention to create a direct Toronto-Chicago train, just to run a Chicago-Detroit-Windsor train, which would connect with a VIA train…

The plan involves a preclearance facility in Windsor, where passengers would clear customs and immigration while switching trains. The experience would resemble that on Amtrak’s Cascades, not the Maple Leaf (which is a lot worse than the Adirondack)…

Maybe as a life hack for the future: if one of your own thoughts strucks yourself as “weird”, it’s most probably too stupid of an idea to write it down and post it somewhere… Maybe another life hack: when people here start to mock you because they can’t find any reason to take you and whatever...

Excellent idea, but why stop here? Why not also paint the train number on the train? And its schedule? And the food menu in Business Class? And the estimated arrival time at the next station?

As long as you can still print or borrow money without spooking the currency and bond markets, there is no real limit to how much you can spend… The question is not whether VIA would consider running such services, but whether Transport Canada and the federal government would consider to...

This and the inverse (Turbo) colour scheme look really outdated and I doubt that anyone beyond railfans could relate to it…

Whether that stock photo was London or Delhi, the point stands that both cities (and virtually any major city on this planet) have unsustainable levels of motor vehicles and struggle to reduce their negative impacts. Wherever cars are available, they still thrive…

Here is the same trip on VIA, allowing its travellers at least 4 hours more in their beds: 06:25 London 08:35 Toronto 16:15/17:22 Toronto 18:27/19:47 London