Expropriate the rails back. They never should have been in private hands.
It’s really unfortunate that we’ve spent the last 30-40 years deleting a lot of the passenger-specific rail infrastructure outside of metro Vancouver and the Toronto-Montreal corridor. At this point it would be a major breakthrough to even bring a serious passenger service into existence. There’s nothing I would like more, but it seems impossible.
It was always nonsense that the freight trains always had priority as they were 12 times longer.
Good luck making it through the prairies on passenger rail. Do we even have any stations left? I never see passenger trains. Only freight.
In the year 2000 I looked into a train trip from Vancouver to Quebec City for two adults and and a child. The cost was $10,000.00. We chose to stay home.
The Canadian is Vancouver to Toronto and a sleeper cabin for 2 is a few grand I think. Idk how you got $10k in 2000 unless you were booking the night before or looking at the prestige cabin
Vancouver to Toronto and a sleeper cabin for 2
2 and a child, if I read it correctly. Did you mis-read?
is a few grand I think.
$3400 one-way, booked 3 weeks in advance, as long as one parent suffers a public berth little better than a rack. A round-trip ticket can be under $8 thousand with careful planning. https://reservia.viarail.ca/en/booking
Porter air, YVR->YYZ->YVR 5 hours each way and a $1,500 itinerary for 2 adults and a child.
Idk
Consider your audience: they’re over 14.
Jeez I know I was wrong but you need to take the stick outta your ass, buddy. If you can’t handle acronyms like “idk” you need to throw your computer in the garbage and live in the woods or something
