lenaitch
Senior Member
RMR isn't a "carrier" - it's a tourism operator. Should the accommodations in Lake Louise be government-mandated to hold some rooms at Super 8 rates?If there is no "public" transportation on that route and they are the only carrier that provides services they should be mandated to. OR VIA should be allowed to operate the same route as a form of public transportation.
VIA isn't disallowed from the route used by RMR. It operates the Canadian on the same trackage that RMR operates its Vancouver-Jasper route. RMR Canadian routes terminate in the nationally-connective hotspots of Banff/Lake Louise, Jasper and Whistler. To get from Vancouver to Banff takes roughly 36 hours with an overnight off-train stop in Kamloops.
I don't know if there are scheduled bus routes in the BC interior, but I'm not sure turning VIA into a federally-mandated and subsidized inter and intra-provincial ground transportation network is the viable answer.