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Originally Posted by Djeffery
I'm actually disappointed reading this, as all this time I was under the impression our Via station in London was third busiest. Disappointed to see we are 4th. Maybe I'm mixing it up with the bus depot lol.
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Maybe London's station was at one point, back when Ottawa had poor rail service. It does have triple London's population and is conveniently located between Toronto and Montreal.
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I was also surprised to see that when our 2 730am departures to Toronto were pared down to 1, that it was the much slower north route that was kept. I guess hooking up with Kitchener makes sense, but I gotta think that many London users decided to hit the highway rather than the rails, especially with highway traffic being somewhat reduced now as well.
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As I said earlier, once VIA gets its new fleet, they will have more capacity to expand their service, so London may very well get more trains. It will get worse before it gets better though as VIA will be forced to retire their corridor Renaissance fleet soon.