Urban Sky
Senior Member
With what fleet, you clown?Instead of all the routes back the same year, do one a year, basing it on the ones that would be the most successful first.
With what fleet, you clown?Instead of all the routes back the same year, do one a year, basing it on the ones that would be the most successful first.
I am guessing you have not been following this. For the short routes, such as C-E, they exercise their right to order more Siemens trains. For the longer routes, such as the CP Canadian, when they replace the existing long distance fleet, they add those needed cars to the order. That is why I am not expecting any of this tomorrow. I know there is nothing spare to meet this new demand.With what fleet, you clown?
You are the one who is not capable of following the discussion here: as things are standing at the moment, there is neither the funding, nor an obvious supplier, to replace the fleet required to maintain the existing non-Corridor services, let alone: to expand them.I am guessing you have not been following this. For the short routes, such as C-E, they exercise their right to order more Siemens trains. For the longer routes, such as the CP Canadian, when they replace the existing long distance fleet, they add those needed cars to the order. That is why I am not expecting any of this tomorrow. I know there is nothing spare to meet this new demand.
I know that to be true. I also know that Via will be looking to replace their fleet if those routes are to continue to exist. I also know they can order more of the Siemens fleet.So, first step is to convince the government to earmark the money for doing that.You are the one who is not capable of following the discussion here: as things are standing at the moment, there is neither the funding, nor an obvious supplier, to replace the fleet required to maintain the existing non-Corridor services, let alone: to expand them.
The first step is to convince the government that they need to secure VIA’s existing non-Corridor routes by replacing VIA‘s existing non-Corridor fleet before it falls apart. Whatever you keep smoking up when you are bored and high in the evening will never happen unless this (and the next) federal government decide to protect the Status Quo of VIA‘s network…I know that to be true. I also know that Via will be looking to replace their fleet if those routes are to continue to exist. I also know they can order more of the Siemens fleet.So, first step is to convince the government to earmark the money for doing that.
That is part of the goal. That is why I will mention the fleet renewal and point at that as a way to prepare Via for adding more routes. If tomorrow Via and the government announced an RFP to replace the fleet and it included 1000 units or more, that to me would signal that they are planning not to just keep what routes we have, but to expand them.The first step is to convince the government that they need to secure VIA’s existing non-Corridor routes by replacing VIA‘s existing non-Corridor fleet before it falls apart. Whatever you keep smoking up when you are bored and high in the evening will never happen unless somebody convinces this (and the next) federal government to protect the Status Quo of VIA‘s network…
Definitely wouldn’t want to be responsible for this and @crs1026 also seems to be ready to finally starve the fantasy bear to death. I‘ve already blocked him (just need to better control the impulse to click „Show ignored content“, LOL!), so if we just leave him alone here and just show him the way back here if he is sighted in the VIA Rail thread, we might be able to retain some of our sanity…Just so you know ... if I get an aspirin/headache relief overdose, I'll definitely blame this thread.
We're going round in circles and it's making me dizzy. Can we please stop feeding the fantasy bear?
Has it been 10 years already?Sure, there won‘t be any passenger rail service at all around Sudbury in 20 years unless this government gets its act together very soon, but feel free to obscure the urgency by distracting from this message by endlessly exhibiting the results of your decade-long daydreaming…
Here is an interesting proposal...https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/saskatchewan-mayors-seek-to-shift-route-of-vias-canadian/