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Toronto-Ottawa, the segment itself is more popular. However some trains on Toronto-Ottawa continue onto Montreal (because it's less expensive, and people have time to kill). This makes ridership on specific destination pairs difficult to calculate (keep in mind that trains do stop enroute unlike...

https://media.viarail.ca/en/press-releases/2018/09-july-2018-via-rail-reports-its-4th-consecutive

Do we know whether HFR will be a single track or double track? It would be a real shame if trains had to wait for each other to pass like with 73/76 near Glencoe (those trains always end up getting delayed).

Lots of kids are doing online school now so they might only be at school 3 days a week. They're also getting on the bus on mass without paying fully knowing that the driver doesn't care most of the time and that they as a crowd can bypass fare inspectors. Fares have gotten out of hand and the...

Demand is strongly correlated with frequency and price. Running one train daily between Edmonton and Calgary will yield something similar to what happened when VIA ended service to Sarnia on 85/88 and people will probably end up taking the bus instead (as they do today). Unless Edmonton to...

I seriously don't get why VIA is dragging their feet on replacing the reservation system. A lot of the station ticket agents are annoyed with how slow and old it is. It's super limited in terms of offering addons (seat selection, meal ordering, etc.), and it definitely isn't as flexible as...

I think VIA is getting new emergency hammers.

Just saying... from Hamilton to Toronto, it's faster to take the express bus except during rush hour (when the trains run). More rail service will for sure help those traveling to intermediate stations, but unless 15 minute service is put in, I still see a lot of people taking the express bus to...

Honestly, I think that VIA should worry more about interprovincial routes Ontario-Quebec and leave the interprovincial routes up to the individual provinces. The province is already working on a transportation plan for SWO that's going to be released any day now. Let's wait for that to come out...

On VIA 92 there was a new engineer in training. On Amtrak 501, the crew were unfamiliar with the route.

No, I thought VIA had a GPS based system indicating the maximum track speed to the crew and that also warns them when they exceed it.

Uhhh, that doesn't sound very safe. At least VIA has at least two engineers in the cab instead of one like on Amtrak for their corridor routes.

Doesn't it warn/track the train crews when they're overspeeding or something, or is it just a GPS tracker?

The conservatives are in power at Queen's Park with a bunch of rural ministers, yet what happened to High Speed Rail? Not completely on topic, but a regional bus network is coming: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5360592

I swear that VIA already has some type of GPS based quasi-PTC, speed enforcement technology already (probably doesn't work for signals though).

I guess if the TTC does get sued, they could use that as an excuse to cut the CNIB pass program and save millions of dollars each year.

The former CEO of VIA said something along the lines of VIA being a crown corporation and having a mandate to maximize the utilization of its assets for the benefit of the public. VIA Rail has a Public Service Obligation to operate trains on the routes under Schedule 1 of SOR/89-488 (Order...

No more freight delays (at least for a couple of days). https://www.cbc.ca/news/cn-rail-1.5364440

The old HEP1/2 and LRC seats were turnable too. I guess, they just don't want to bother turning them...

https://www.viarail.ca/sites/all/files/media/pdfs/About_VIA/our-company/annual-public-meeting/EN%202019%20Annual%20Public%20Meeting_Questions%20and%20Answers%20FINAL.pdf Interesting how it no longer says that the reservation system will be replaced next year, hope it isn't delayed.