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Where did he claim that Via employees are overpaid?
What was that bit at the end about?
I can assure you that Paige is absolutely here to tell the truth.
That is because Paige is a journalist, not a transport planner or even a railfan.
Ah yes. Journalists usually swear at the main subject of their stories right at the end of the report.
This "journalist" also advocated for cutting Ottawa out on his last HFR video. Now he's on to cutting Quebec City and VIA employees apparently. I wonder what his next video will suggest cutting.
Maybe CBC is a dayjob for him. But these videos and the rants on them are more unfactual railfan than "journalist".
But I can't help but notice that GO Transit doesn't have any of those over-the-top boarding and service practices despite operating on the same tracks and serving many of the same stations (namely Union Station, whose narrow platrforms are often used as an excuse for Via's insane boarding procedures).
Do GO and VIA have to follow the same rules when one is provincially regulated and the other is federally regulated? Do we now what VIA's mandates from their owner say about safety goals and staffing ratios? Personally, I find it a stretch that VIA (having heard these complaints for literally decades) retains these practices without some requirement being imposed on them from high. Also, they don't impose the requirement to line up outside the major stations. So it's clearly not a required universal practice.