As Canadian OEMs who assemble vehicles in Canada continue to announce delayed investments, and scaled back production plans, Canada’s newly-named federal Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly has been meeting with their leaders to encourage them to protect Canadian jobs. After meetings with General Motors officials in Oshawa yesterday, Joly held a press briefing and answered... Read more »
And VIA Rail trains have been extra late for a few months now, with no end in sight.
Plus, the coach industry is continuing to reduce and/or cut routes. Fifteen years ago I could go from Drummondville to Victoriaville, and be back the same day. Now there’s three coaches a week. I once heard a guy in a train from Drummondville to Montréal, saying that he was visiting his brother in Victoriaville when he had to leave a day earlier and discovered there were simply no coaches leaving the city that day. He paid $80 for a taxi to get him to Drummondville so he could then take a train home.
As someone that tries to get around without a car, some days, all levels of governments make me wish I had one.
I live in Nova Scotia. They just ripped out a bunch of train rails near me because people keep talking about funding train service again. It would be amazing for us living rural to be able to travel carless since we are so far from lots of things. I’m sure that’s why the last tracks here are being pulled up now. The trucking companies that charge extra to come to our island just because it’s an island and used to be more difficult to get to would be out of business. There is no reason since the 1960’s but they continue to charge us for nothing. No tracks means no trains for sure.
Why shouldn’t the poor subsidize the rich replacing their 3 year old Lexus with an electric sports car?
It’s not like we could be funding mass transit and better housing density that actually supports mass transit with that money instead.
It’s so ridiculous. I know it’s a provincial matter but some suburbs around Montréal are trying to build TOD and they get threatened by the transit authority to have their train lines reduced or cut. Even if they are already not in function during evenings and weekends.
And VIA Rail trains have been extra late for a few months now, with no end in sight.
Plus, the coach industry is continuing to reduce and/or cut routes. Fifteen years ago I could go from Drummondville to Victoriaville, and be back the same day. Now there’s three coaches a week. I once heard a guy in a train from Drummondville to Montréal, saying that he was visiting his brother in Victoriaville when he had to leave a day earlier and discovered there were simply no coaches leaving the city that day. He paid $80 for a taxi to get him to Drummondville so he could then take a train home.
As someone that tries to get around without a car, some days, all levels of governments make me wish I had one.
I live in Nova Scotia. They just ripped out a bunch of train rails near me because people keep talking about funding train service again. It would be amazing for us living rural to be able to travel carless since we are so far from lots of things. I’m sure that’s why the last tracks here are being pulled up now. The trucking companies that charge extra to come to our island just because it’s an island and used to be more difficult to get to would be out of business. There is no reason since the 1960’s but they continue to charge us for nothing. No tracks means no trains for sure.