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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
Why should VIA keep focusing on the Corridor? It is well served.
What needs to happen is all services go to a daily service both ways. This will make scheduling with CN/CP, etc simplier as they know it is coming the same time every day.
The next thing they need is to start servicing places they don't, like Calgary and Regina to name a few.
The federal government needs to change thee TC laws to make passenger service have priority over freight. This would mean that all trains would have to take the siding and the passenger train just keeps on going. They would also need to make it law that the companies must allow passenger service on all their lines.
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It is not as easy as this since not all sidings are of equal length so not all freight trains will fit on a particular siding. Sometimes the crew runs out of hours and has to park the train on a siding so then the distance between sidings is doubled until a new crew is available. What we need is the older smaller sidings that were ripped out to be re-installed so the distance between sidings is shortened so at least a passenger train doesn't have to wait so long.
The other problem is that sometimes fleets of trains are dispatched one behind another which increases the waiting time for trains travelling the opposite direction.
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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
I know we are dreaming, but with the focus on climate change, and a minority government, this could be something that the majority of parties would support.
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I agree.