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Originally Posted by CityTech
Yeah you are very out of touch with the country outside your prairie bubble. VIA is very popular in the corridor, almost as many people take the train from Toronto to Ottawa as fly. Plenty of business travel occurs by VIA. The service is doing well as ridership on the Toronto-Kingston-Ottawa line has increased by 40% in the last 5 years and the subsidy per passenger has fallen significantly.
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I just checked the recent Via annual reports and you're right. The annual subsidy has indeed been dropping across the entire network. From $83 per passenger on average in 2014 to $60 in 2017. That's a pretty substantial improvement in a relatively short amount of time. I wonder with GO substantially increasing their service to Niagara whether Via will cut the route or not.