https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/pa...-1.6654919
“The federal government has hired two consultants to examine ways to improve passenger rail service in southwestern Ontario after pandemic fears of close contact with strangers torpedoed ridership to crisis levels. ”
As usual, transit has to pay for itself or else it “just doesn’t make sense”.
Do we need consultants to tell us why passenger rail went down during a pandemic? Can’t the minister just book a train ride from Windsor to Montreal and see for themselves slowly and not-cheaply?
Obviously I’m happy to see someone looking at this but it’s damn hard to not be jaded. I took the train from Stratford to Montreal as a kid 20 years ago. I can’t do that today on an adult’s schedule salary.
“The federal government has hired two consultants to examine ways to improve passenger rail service in southwestern Ontario after pandemic fears of close contact with strangers torpedoed ridership to crisis levels. ”
As usual, transit has to pay for itself or else it “just doesn’t make sense”.
Do we need consultants to tell us why passenger rail went down during a pandemic? Can’t the minister just book a train ride from Windsor to Montreal and see for themselves slowly and not-cheaply?
Obviously I’m happy to see someone looking at this but it’s damn hard to not be jaded. I took the train from Stratford to Montreal as a kid 20 years ago. I can’t do that today on an adult’s schedule salary.
local cambridge weirdo