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Originally Posted by Urban_Sky
Feel free to propose a “useful” service offering for Atlantic Canada, which would not increase VIA’s subsidy requirement or completely sacrifice the link to the Q-W Corridor with its maintenance centers (both are hard constraints imposed by Transport Canada). Oh yes, and all of that with a rail infrastructure which no longer serves population centers like Fredericton and does not support travel times (or reliability) which would be remotely competitive against the car, bus or plane.
Me and my former colleagues at VIA had to eventually accept defeat at this task, but (who knows?) maybe you have more skills, imagination or luck…
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Safe to say that any VIA service increase would require additional subsidies. Pretty much all existing VIA service is currently subsidized to some degree so no one could realistically expect a new service to operate without any new funding. It should probably go without saying that if someone advocates for expanding a subsidized service like VIA they're also advocating for more funding for that service.
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