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Cheapskate politicians forcing public services to defer maintenance leads to far greater costs to taxpayers in the long term. A maintenance deficit usually compounds much faster than cash! www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art... condition/

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Which is it? A double-deck car sewer through Toronto is not a nation-building project!

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Join Paul Langan and Terry Johnson for a conversation about high speed rail corridors and projects in eastern and western Canada, hosted by the Canadian Institute on Monday May 5th

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On April 24, 1955 Canadian Pacific's new streamliner "The Canadian" set out from Vancouver for the first time, bound for Toronto and Montreal. Today we celebrate the 70th anniversary of Canada's iconic train, now operated by VIA Rail. Share your favourite photos and memories:

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Good transit is for everyone, and youth speaking up for better service helps everybody. Thank you Samuel Sweet! If you live near Sunbury, please support this petition. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Toronto and Calgary need better choices, and for those choices to be made by politicians who are accountable to the citizens of the city.

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Building more bike lanes isn’t just good for mobility and road safety, it’s fiscally responsible:

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Culture Shift. Content done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

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Public transit can’t wait for politics to catch up #transit #Canada www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

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Beware of scams targeting transit riders and VIA Rail passengers! To protect yourself, only purchase transit passes through official channels, or train tickets through the VIA Rail website, at stations, travel agencies, or a reputable site like BusBud. www.lethbridge.ca/news/posts/c...

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Advocates give TTC station a makeover to spur city to fund new wayfinding system TTCriders says existing system has 'hodgepodge of signage' that needs updating www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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With the support of @transportaction.ca, I’ll be continuing to update my intercity transport map. It’s been a true labour of love, mapping where you can – and cannot – go within Canada. seanmarshall.ca/transport-map/

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Meeting with VIA Rail is interesting news. Additional Venture trains could easily serve the Calgary-Edmonton corridor--like the LRCs would have done if it hadn't been for the federal government's cuts in the 1980s!

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Do you live in the Sudbury area? Support this petition to improve GOVA transit:

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This is the kind of investment in sustainable transit for smaller cities we need in Canada, because it saves those cities—and their residents and small businesses—millions in operating costs and traffic congestion costs.

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Dozens of intercommunity bus routes across Ontario have been lost as a result of the end of provincial funding this month. This is a severe blow to rural communities and residents. Many of these service were launched in 2020 only really getting known now.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us in Kingston and on Zoom for our AGM and public meeting on Saturday, including guest speakers Carl Fowler and Sean Marshall.

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Not having transit priority signalling on Eglinton is a big mistake that will cost ridership and operating hours if left unresolved, but it’s also a fairly easy thing to fix.

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The Todayliner No one is looking to bring back the Dayliner even though most people have fond memories of it. Of course, without repairing the tracks, we can't run any passenger service nor could we expand the movement of freight on it. Restore Island Rail chng.it/HTPJ25CqPr

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Transport Action Atlantic president Tim Hayman responds to the acquisition of Sackville station:

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This blowback is a predictable consequence of the government's change in strategy and dropping the previously promised station in Perth. We could build such intermediate stops on HSR - Japan does, and at low cost - with selected services calling at them.

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Good to see Ontario extending funding for this route, but it's only for a year. All Community Transportation Grant funding needs to be renewed and made long term so residents can depend on these services to keep rural communities connected.

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Ontario's GO bus service will be extended from Brantford to the Six Nations of the Grand River and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations, starting April 5.

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Churchill is both a strategically important port and a remote community that relies on passenger rail service, so this is a welcome investment.

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Join us at our annual public meeting, April 5th 2025 at 1pm Eastern. Keynote Speaker: Carl Fowler - The Future of Cross-Border Passenger Rail Plus: Mapping Canada's Motorcoach Networks; VIA Rail Canada and Alto HSR: Kingston as a regional hub?

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A lil rain can't stop us, we are out here! Join us!

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30%+ of people don't or can't drive, and some drivers probably shouldn't! Good public transport means empowering everyone to participate in social and economic opportunities. Mobility without a car is freedom.

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VIA Rail is currently experimenting with a Starlink system to provide network connectivity for long-distance and remote services, but US-based Starlink isn't the only option:

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More good news from Ottawa. A few glitches with station departures boards and automated on-board announcements were ongoing last week but shouldn't be too hard to fix.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

👏 👏 👏 This is what every transit leader should be doing, because listening to riders and drivers can identify and fix small problems before they become big problems.

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

Cameron Lake, British Columbia, Canada looking East toward Coombs and Parksville.

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Positive developments could be on the way for Calgary Transit passengers:

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It is possible to have modern regional trains in Canada… but at the moment they’re only in Ottawa!

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

More like this please!

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Canada needs better passenger rail well before 2039, and the public deserves an explanation of why the co-development phase is expected to cost billions.

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

Bird Construction and AtkinsRéalis have been awarded the contract to deliver East Harbour station, which will be both a GO RER and Ontario Line line station, helping to relieve congestion at Union.

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The federal government should be stepping up help bring Alberta's passenger rail plans to fruition. Federal capital investment, and using VIA Rail to staff a provincially supported service, as several US states do with Amtrak, could accelerate this.

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In current dollars, that's less than $150M. We really ought to be able to complete the co-development phase for Alto (HFR) for much less than the proposed $3.9B, somewhat faster than when it had to be done on foot and horseback, and without loss of lives of course! @anitaanandmp.bsky.social

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We need a hero to save our buses! Who will it be? We are eagerly awaiting the release of Budget 2025 at 1:30 PM today and are really hoping (with our fingers and toes crossed) that it includes funding for transit. 1/2

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

With lines 2 and 4 now open, land-use policy needs to align with transit policy. Dense, walkable, and mixed-use neighbourhoods around stations maximizes city investments and benefits residents: • more housing • reduced car cost burdens • increased tax base and transit revenue

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