But you can see it from there.
Blacklock’s- Defending 400% Rail Subsidy
A 400 percent passenger subsidy at one of Canada’s few Indigenous-run railways is still cheaper than flying, says a federal audit. The Québec line could not run without taxpayers’ aid and will require more subsidies in the future, wrote auditors.
“Federal funding for passenger rail services in remote communities is essential to ensure individuals from these communities can access the ground transportation network and essential medical services,” said the Evaluation Of The Remote Passenger Rail Program.
Medical patients will DIE on the train … as it chugs along taking forever … when minutes count. The government is shoving 18th century technology down your gullet … because going backward is good for you, or something.
It makes VIA rail look efficient, since it only has an operating ratio of 160, instead of 400
The natives will be the end of us.. I suppose that’s the plan..
i’m all for retro. Maybe we can start sending their federal money by smoke signal too.
Sept-Iles to Labrador City.
https://www.globalrailwayreview.com/news/126232/canada-infrastructure-bank-modernise/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/now-this-heres-the-story_b_5664644?guccounter=1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tshiuetin_Rail_Transportation
Of course, it’s in Quebec and Indigenous-run (double bonus points), so us tax-slaves should not question it in the slightest. Nothing to see here.
OT *major* unprecedented action by speaker hours ago
aka the naziism continues . . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcHBx-73Fmk
meanwhile LIEberal kathlleen wynnedfarm shut down rural train service all over ontariowe.
because . . . . . . . kaybeck
There was rural train service all over Ontario? Who knew? Back in the day I thought I was doing well to get to Ottawa and London by train.
The day after Polievre kills CBC he can kill Via Rail. Total waste of $400 million.
Couldn’t they have just expanded the existing ONR model?
Yes, it’s easy to mock these lines to nowhere but I think they should be preserved as living history. If that provokes the response, “You call this living?”, well, that’s largely the point. Living history helps reminds us how much of the past was a good deal less adequate than we’d like. As the wise man said, there was a time in this fair land when the the railways did not run, and we shouldn’t leap back to those days without saving something.
Getting real tired of the people.