High Speed Rail Canada Critical of VIA RAIL Secrecy Regarding Details of High Frequency Rail Plan
High Speed Rail Canada is Canada's only advocacy groups dedicated to promoting the modernization of passenger rail in Canada.
High Speed Rail Canada's mandate is to educate people on the benefits of modern passenger rail. They do it through their website
http://www.highspeedrailcanada.com , Youtube channel, Facebook, Twitter
;@HSRCanada and public educational sessions.
VIA RAIL has been actively promoting their High Frequency Rail Plan in Ontario. Repeated attempts to obtain detailed maps of where this train will run from VIA RAIL have been unsuccessful.
What limited details they have released of their plan contain positive and negative. On the positive side VIA RAIL understands the importance of getting off tracks owned by CN and to have more frequency trains. On the negative side is VIA RAIL's decision to have slow train speeds that Canada had in 1975.
Paul Langan, Founder of High Speed Rail Canada states,
" For some reason VIA RAIL management have decided they do not have to be accountable to the people of Canada. They should release all the data related to their High Frequency Rail Plan including detailed maps so the public can adequately evaluate this plan. Their continued secrecy regarding lack of details on this plan does little to install any public confidence in VIA RAIL or their plan."