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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
Arbitrary solution:
What they could do is have it that:
1) all trains that do not go though Ottawa leave at the top of the hour.
2) All express trains leave at 15 minutes past the hour
3) All trains that do not connect to Montreal leave at half past the hour
4) All express trains leave at 15 minutes to the hour.
You could still have all the service, but you now know that your train is easy to figure out. Each one may only run twice a day, but that would be 8 different services that are easy to differentiate.
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Well that's just the point, Via can't do that. It has attempted to make its trains leave at regular intervals but freight traffic prevents what you're suggesting. The government has shown consistently over the decades that it's unwilling to make the changes needed to allow for this on the existing tracks. So Via made the pragmatic decision to plan its own route.