lenaitch
Senior Member
You might be right about some, but I'm not aware of 'locals' discounts for the Maritime ferries. I believe PEI residents get free ferry/bridge passage if it's for medical reasosns but I don't know what the rules are.
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General railway discussions
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Darwinkgo
Active Member
The PEI bridge availability payment is paid by the feds, hence likely not discriminating. Likely the PEI government had a longstanding arrangement to help medical patients and they likely pay a shadow toll to support that.
Allandale25
Senior Member
roger1818
Senior Member
Darwinkgo
Active Member
That ferry has a subsidy from the NS government.
lenaitch
Senior Member
Thanks. The one page I didn't look at. No resident discounts shown for NB/NS or NB/PEI routes.
roger1818
Senior Member
I did say, "especially if they receive funding or special considerations from the local government."
Allandale25
Senior Member
Reminds me of the engine OBRY had at the end of its life (RIP).
Allandale25
Senior Member
CN, CSX Scuttle Massena Line Transaction (Updated With Commentary) - Railway Age
CSX and CN have mutually terminated their transaction in which CN would purchase CSX’s Montreal-Syracuse, N.Y., Massena Line and fold it into its Bessemer Subdivision, the former Bessemer & Lake Erie, which CN acquired in 2004 as part of its larger purchase of holding company Great Lakes...
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Allandale25
Senior Member
kamira51
Active Member
We gotta stop ripping up perfect railway corridors, I'm amazed that Metrolinx doesn't buy the whole line and start providing service.
Urban Sky
Senior Member
May I ask you what route and ridership potential you see for Metrolinx which couldn‘t be satisfied faster, more reliably and for a tiny fraction of total costs by a medium-sized bus?
DirectionNorth
Active Member
We should be preserving these corridors for future use, even if there is no need now. They're usually cheap, and leaving them to sit is better than tearing the thing up apart, only to discover that we could use a corridor (for whatever purpose) a few decades down the road ...
reaperexpress
Senior Member
Buying the line to protect for the future makes sense. That's exactly why GO bought the line between Stouffville and Uxbridge.
But actually running service doesn't necessarily make sense at the moment.
But actually running service doesn't necessarily make sense at the moment.
Northern Light
Superstar
CN, CSX Scuttle Massena Line Transaction (Updated With Commentary) - Railway Age
CSX and CN have mutually terminated their transaction in which CN would purchase CSX’s Montreal-Syracuse, N.Y., Massena Line and fold it into its Bessemer Subdivision, the former Bessemer & Lake Erie, which CN acquired in 2004 as part of its larger purchase of holding company Great Lakes...
This is a very interesting piece............I would encourage others to read it.
I may comment further....but for now.....take a look-see.