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Originally Posted by Urban_Sky
Abolishing the remote services would achieve nothing beyond adding to the long list of grievances of this country's First Nation communities, while freeing up a paltry $20 million in federal funding without any guarantee that any of that would be reinvested into passenger rail services, let alone: improved VIA services...
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I feel like that $20M needs to be specifically booked by INAC instead of VIA so that people understand exactly why those intraprovincial routes are run. Maybe an en route announcement to help make it really obvious. "This adventure route service is brought to you by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. We're helping connect Canada's remote First Nations communities to the world."
What I was getting at though, was that when it comes to the core mission of connecting provinces, there's really only three services that matter.
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Originally Posted by Urban_Sky
Wrong, see the video I just posted! "Ghost trains" are train services run either at their absolute minimum frequency (say: weekly) or have been "temporarily" suspended (often for decades), simply to help rail companies to avoid going through the absurdly bureaucratic process of abandoning rail services, even if nobody needs them anymore...
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I feel like this is a quibble on how usefulness is defined. Clearly a debate the British themselves are having on the topic. But if we're going to be more accurate, I guess the best way to look at this is that most of VIA's non-Corridor services run at frequencies similar to these Ghost Trains.
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