[ssiguy]

Well if your wish is that these towns are depopulating then by all means continue the VIA service. N.Ontario and rural West has been depopulating for a long time with their VIA service. If VIA is suppose to help small towns then it has been a stellar failure.

Question...........yes, I want an honest answer...........If you didn't have a car or weren't able to drive and so you needed inter-city transportation would you rather have a frequent, reliable, faster, and affordable bus service or a train that comes by 2 or 3 times a week {as opposed to 3 times a day}, is slower, less reliable, and costs 3 times as much?