Daily train service in Canada.
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@babaq @infobeautiful I just looked into it, as I have to get from Toronto to Vancouver at some point. Trains run twice a week, take 4 days (!) and cost over CA$500 for a seat, CA$3,500 for a sleeper.
@rupert
Sounds like they've been reduced to a Special Needs schedule for those afraid of flying.
Pity.
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Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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Personal vehicles burning oil/gas on inefficiently designed roads to serve the few at the cost of the many.
Canada loves monopolies and sucking off corporations.
@Sea1Am @infobeautiful so stick some car transporters at the end of the train and sell that? In Canada it would make sense. You go from province A to D (or a territory if you’re feeling adventurous) and the drive off to your final destination. Doesn’t really answer why people abandoned them en masse.
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@rupert I feel your pain… it's the same story in Europe, flying is not only faster but also cheaper (among the others, not all externalities are included in flight ticket prices)
@infobeautiful@rupert @infobeautiful @babaq not all minutes are counted in travel time. For me to fly from Paris to Marseille might be an hour flight but getting to CDG, from the city (an hour) check in dealing with security (two hours) flying (hour) and getting into Marseille yet another hour) makes the 3,5 hour train trip easy.
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@yncke
I was confused too but Canada is huge I gues.
Coast to coast by train is like a week or something.Compared to Europe you have to call the orient express I think.
@infobeautiful@infobeautiful @deusfigendi @yncke yes. And population density. There some regional rail in Ontario and one line in BC that runs commuter trains but it would add much to the map. We are extremely poor key services by rail.
Nevertheless there should be lots of regional rail in the Lower Mainland of BC and Vancouver Island. In the entire southern Ontario and Quebec corridor, and even the Halifax/Moncton/Saint John region and between Calgary and Edmonton.
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Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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Only passengers not freight, right? -
Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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It's much better in Europe of course, despite increased privatisation, interoperability problems, cuts to night trains, underinvestment in non-HS rail, and subsidies for aviation.... -
Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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Looks the same in France.Short distance: by bus now (some old lines have not been electrified).
Long distance: by fly because it's fast and cheap?! (frequency diminished maybe with train). TGV still works well, too.When I was child I've done Geneva - La Coruna (Spain) a lot of times: it was 2 train days. Challenging, but still fun for landscapes view. :0)
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@Sea1Am @infobeautiful so stick some car transporters at the end of the train and sell that? In Canada it would make sense. You go from province A to D (or a territory if you’re feeling adventurous) and the drive off to your final destination. Doesn’t really answer why people abandoned them en masse.
Advertisements equating car ownership and freedom convinced generations of idiots to get on their knees and suck off the oil barons.
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Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
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https://www.threads.com/@uptheroader/post/DLqj7iNygSZ@infobeautiful You hear Canadians talking about how the Windsor-Québec corridor doesn't have HSR but something like Calgary-Edmonton not even having daily service is absolutely shocking. Surely there would be demand for an *hourly* service on a connection like this? (And given the terrain it could easily be HSR, too)
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