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VIA Rail president announces new Stratford-Toronto train for 2016
I wish we could here good news like that Amtrak but…
Actually except in the Windsor-Toronto-Montreal corridor,VIA Canada has a worst passenger rail system than even Amtrak does in terms of route numbers and frequencies in most of Canada.
Make that a “new” Stratford-Toronto train. All they’re doing is reinstating one that was axed about five years ago.
Great news but honestly VIA could stand to reinstate a lot more trains and services.
This additional service will likely to compensate the elimination of further existing VIA Rail routes in some remote areas. I would not be surprised if the route between Sudbury and White River will be scrapped since there has been connections of new access logging roads into those served communities. That includes the route between Montreal and Senneterre.