VIA Rail

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Yes, our train service certainly doesn't compare with most of Europe's. Two European metros of half a million people 150 kilometres apart (London and KW) would have more than twenty departures a day and respectable speeds.

But, on the topic of Via rail, for those of us who travel between Kitchener and London, it would be nice to have that third train back.

I should point out that in general, when it comes to transit, increased frequency leads to increased demand. Locally we have seen it with the GO buses and the iXpress. Incidentally this also holds for highways.

In Germany in particular the fast ICE trains started with a handful of trips a day and have been increasing both frequency and capacity ever since. In fact train station platforms had to be enlarged to handle double and triple length ICEs.