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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
You mean the politicians elected by the public? This thread is truly ironic given that the politicians most ready to cut VIA's budgets are usually from the provinces being discussed here.
Also, opportunity cost is a real thing. Ask Albertans, Saskatchewans and Manitobans if they want $100M per year invested in transit in their cities, or a once per day VIA train from end-to-end on the CP and CN tracks. We all know what they will say.
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Originally Posted by foolworm
but what the penny-pinchers in Ottawa want.
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There's penny pinching, and there's spending $600 a passenger. If the government chooses to spend $600 per rider on some worthless rural route, it's money that could have been spent to subsidize some other transit route at maybe a few dollars a ride, for a rider that is actually going to be productive to the economy rather than a constant drain. It's not 1870. Rail is to be used when there are thousands of people an hour taking a route, not thousands per year.
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