VIA Rail

[ssiguy]

Originally Posted by roger1818

Have a look at this post by Urban_Sky.

EDIT: Regarding the northern communities, it is anecdotal, but I am sure one could extract the data from VIA Rail's 2018 Passenger Boarding and Deboarding stats.

Those passenger boarding stats really exemplify how useless VIA is outside of The Corridor. Any route outside of it is completely financially unsustainable and should be cancelled immediately.

I live in Vancouver and NOBODY even thinks about using VIA for any form of transportation. Full stop. The ONLY people who use it are tourists and wealthy ones to boot. The cancellation of Greyhound in the West was big news in the city but if VIA was to cancel service no one would care and even fewer would notice. Saying people in BC take VIA as transportation is akin to saying people in Niagara view the Maid of the Mist as a commuting option.

Sell off all non-Corridor routes to private companies and send their precious dollars to the only place they make any sense.