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There are so many things wrong with that map! :oops:

Reading over the News Release, the thing that caught my eye was that they are highlighting that this first segment spans two provinces. It reminds me that as a federal project, its primary focus is interprovincial transportation. While there will be a lot of intraprovincial riders as well, by in...

The question becomes, what incentive does CPKC have to sell their ROW if they still have to maintain their own tracks. A huge part of the value proposition would be that Alto would pay to upgrade and maintain the track and CPKC gets to reduce their operating costs. Similarly, CN isn't going to...

If I had to guess, ice and snow buildup somehow prevented uncoupling.

Banning freight from Alto tracks wouldn't just affect the Havelock Sub. CN actively uses the VIA owned sections of the Alexandria, Beachburg and Smiths Falls Subs. Would Alto ban CN from serving Ottawa (and consequently Nylene in Arnprior) or would they build new tracks for Alto and maintain...

We have discussed this before, but CN was a crown corporation at the time that VIA was created. VIA was actually created by spinning off CN's passenger rail division. VIA quickly realized that to operate efficiently, they would also need to take over CP's passenger division. While passenger...

And the shunt enhancers that would be required for shorter trainsets will likely be available in a similar timeframe at a greatly reduced cost.

There is a balance. When there is a real need, the government should be able to expropriate land for fair compensation in a timely manner. What you don't want is needless expropriation, like when the NCC expropriated LeBreton Flats in the 60's for redevelopment, demolished all the buildings and...

Thought this was interesting about special expedited expropriation rules for HxR. https://www.iedm.org/special-expropriation-rules-for-vias-high-speed-rail-project-erode-long-standing-property-protections-due-process-warns-the-mei/

Here is another video about it:

Name one Amtrak long distance route that services cities the with populations similar to those on the Calgary to Toronto route.

Understandable. I was trying to bring things back to the topic at hand, but may not have been clear on that. It could very well be that while they may not want to encourage payment on the bus, they also don't want to strand anyone who isn't capable of purchasing a ticket online, for whatever...

Last I checked TTC was a transit agency, not an intercity transportation service. As for your claim that all intercity transportation services allow you to pay cash onboard, I disagree. The reality is, it is getting harder and harder buy tickets with cash onboard any intercity transportation...

ONR is a Transportation service, not a Transit agency. AFAIK, VIA doesn't take cash onboard.

No one takes cash anymore, so I would doubt if it will be accepted onboard.