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From: "John Feldsted" <jfeldsted@shaw.ca>
Subject: Is CN trying to kill Via Rail? By: Greg Gormick Winnipeg Free Press 08/15/2017

TO paraphrase a 1978 comedy-mystery film, �Who is killing the great trains of Canada?�

The cast of characters is lengthy.

Start with Liberal and Conservative governments that have seen no value in a modern rail passenger system since Via Rail was launched the same year as that movie.

Cue the fresh-faced Ottawa policy advisers whose credentials include rail-relevant work in cosmetics marketing (I kid you not).

Add a dash of hostility by airlines and bus lines that want Via�s subsidy diverted to their accounts.

But there is no question who is slowly euthanizing the greatest of all Canadian passenger trains, the world-renowned Canadian on the Toronto-Sudbury-Vancouver route. It�s former Crown corporation Canadian National (CN).

Since it was privatized in 1995, CN has been extending the length of its freight trains, but not keeping pace by extending the sidings where opposing trains can �meet� each other or slower ones can be overtaken by faster ones, such as the Canadian. As a result, many CN employees now joke about the Canadian owning those short sidings.
Read on: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/is-cn-trying-to-kill-via-rail-440457023.html

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Regrettably, the short answer is �yes�.

Once more, the Canada Transport Agency is letting us down. Part of the mandate of the Agency is to monitor rail lines to ensure that contractors such as Omnitrax (service to Churchill) and CN (Service across Canada) live up to their commitments.

CN is collecting $6 million per year to ensure Via Rail can run its services and instead we get Via trains running anywhere from a couple of hours to 24 hours behind schedule. I am one of the victims � I was in Alberta and planning to take the train into BC � but the Via train was running about 10 hours late on the day I planned to travel, so I had to make alternate arrangements and missed an opportunity to see some of our country from a new perspective.

The Canada Transport Agency is one of several that has become a self-sustaining bureaucracy that can do nicely without any transportation worries to fret over. There is no valid excuse why the Agency has not stepped in to ensure we have national passenger rail service. Rail travel is not cheap these days, and it should be considerably cheaper.

Our governments are not insisting that its agencies do what they are intended to do. If they have bigger fish to fry, then agencies need to be downsized. The choice is clear to most people.
 
John Feldsted

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