Why Trains In Canada Are Horrible

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@tomasjakovac7950 28 күн бұрын

Generally this video is on the right track, but it gets some pretty important historical context wrong, mainly by assuming the story of Canadian rail in the 20th century is identical to that of the American one. Unlike CP, CN was not a private company in the 1970s when VIA was created, it was a Crown Corporation owned by the government until the 1990s. So even though the tracks VIA rail was running on were not owned by them directly, since CN was fully nationalised it had a mandate to accommodate VIA trains on its tracks (which to this day host the majority of the VIA network), which they no longer have. It's only after CN was privatised and funding for VIA slashed in half by the Mulroney PC government in the 90s that metrics like on-time performance really started to take a nosedive to their current lows. We also had attempts at HSR in the 70s and 80s, first with CN's Turbo and then VIA's LRC sets, which were not as successful as their designers had hoped but are nonetheless still worth mentioning in a video about how we got here when it comes to passenger rail in Canada. Overall good video, just again could really do with a bit more research and historical context for some of the claims made.

@TheUrbanique 28 күн бұрын

Thank you for the additional information!

@mackiefarrell 27 күн бұрын

I genuinely believe that all Canada needs is one well constructed, well operated high speed rail line to be completed anywhere in the country really but probably in the Quebec-Windsor corridor. Once we have that and people get to ride it and see how nice it actually is and that it is better than flying or driving for many of the trips most of us take then people's opinions on rail travel will shift. It'll have a domino effect where we'll go from struggling to get one line built to demanding that more lines be built and quickly.

@TheUrbanique 27 күн бұрын

While I don’t think HSR is viable everywhere, the corridor in my head is a no-brainer especially with all the talk the government has been saying about change… it’s time to see concrete action and investment intro our passenger rail infrastructure

@Inerturn 27 күн бұрын

As a Canadian: I’ll let you know that at least we have trains

@denisstarcencov8874 22 күн бұрын

Maybe, but we can do better, why can't we? Why should we accept mediocrity? In my opinion, mediocre is worst then bad, because when something is mediocre, it means that it can be good. I think Canadians have a hard time to accept the risks of improving rails, afraid of change, but we can do it. Btw I am Canadian too, from montreal.

@eingrobernerzustand3741 Ай бұрын

Didnt high frequency rail get canceled in favour of going for hsr instead of a farce?

@TheUrbanique 29 күн бұрын

I’m not 100% certain, I don’t think they’ve released an official speed but I truly hope they just go for HSR, HFR looks like more a marketing gimmick than anything else

@GadreelAdvocat 29 күн бұрын

Or B.C. getting F over selling B.,C. Rail. We sent all the good looking and funtioning rail cars east. Then they sent all the garbage rail cars west. Rail can go suck an egg.

@hirsch4155 25 күн бұрын

B.C. used to have B.C. rail , now all we have is VIA rail which is a very limited service!

@RyanFlyinHigh 24 күн бұрын

The one major issue with your experience is that the rail between montreal and ottawa is one of the only via rail owned lines. I think you need to go and try something like Montreal - Brockville, and then head up to Ottawa from there. This will let you get the via rail experience on the CN Tracks

@TheUrbanique 24 күн бұрын

Pt 2👀

@stickynorth Ай бұрын

It can if its done correctly which is something we haven't done a lot of recently sadly enough. Almost every project in Canada has been behind schedule and over budget and not all of it can be blamed on COVID. We've just gotten bad at building complicated projects with any repeatability or coordination which is why each project feels and is costing too much like a bespoke customized house vs a mass produced trailer which would be much more useful at this point... Personally I'd love for Canada to create at least 3 High Speed Rail routes that top 320 km/h as well as create a 125 mph/200 km/h Trans-Canada Higher Speed railway adding more tracks along existing rights of way or along the TCA itself in the median much like the upcoming Brightline West between Metro L.A. and Las Vegas is going to do to cut down costs and speed up trains simultaneously by mostly running down existing Interstate and railway alignments.. This would also allow an much more incremental approach starting with hybrid-electric trains on one track with passing sections to start with full electrification later OR with full electrification of one line with future space for another, as was the case with BLW which went from the first concept to the second with only a small bump in costs...

@stickynorth Ай бұрын

The three routes? 1-Vancouver-Seattle-Portland as a Joint Venture with Amtrak... 2-Edmonton-Calgary along the QEII median at 320 km/h. It's the fastest growing area of Canada for a reason. Affordable, wide-open, young, rich, educated... A Northern Colorado... And of course the Windsor-Quebec City corridor aka Canada's MegaCity One where the vast majority of Canadians live...

@ostkkfmhtsh012345678 29 күн бұрын

I think if it were to rise again, #VIArail needs to reduce its service responsibilities and focus more on helping local transit expand and connect with other transit systems by giving up timeslots for local transit trains and sharing RoWs with local transit systems. #VIArail should be limited to only providing interprovincial services and occasional tourist services. Else, local regional transit should take priority such as local transit taking up timeslots used for the Canadian service to build regional rail in #Alberta, #BC, and more including expanding #TransLink's #WCE in #MetroVancouver.

@gamingbigfats3934 23 күн бұрын

Canada is 100 years behind Europe and will never catch up.😢

@CaptainLicorice 29 күн бұрын

I'm old enough to have taken a train from both Halifax and New Glasgow into Moncton and then to Montreal. I miss that

@OK-ws7ti 28 күн бұрын

great video love it

@LOCALSTORMPONDFISHERMAN 26 күн бұрын

As a Canadian freight train conductor I can tell you that via rail takes absolutely priority over us all of the time. We wait hours for them so they don’t get a delay. I work on the Toronto to Montreal corridor.

@TheUrbanique 26 күн бұрын

I wonder if that corridor has any special deals as it’s the most important in terms of passenger rail, would you know! But thank you, if you’d like to write me an email (on my channel about page) I’d love to ask you a few questions!

@qwopiretyu 26 күн бұрын

@@TheUrbanique the special deal is a rich family or a corpo instructs the government to stop building more infrastructure, that way they maintain the monopoly. Canada is the same in every industry.

@TheUrbanique Ай бұрын

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@woltews 26 күн бұрын

I dont think CP or CN ever thrived on passenger rail , the freight always payed the bills they only ran passenger because the government forced them to . The day the government stopped forcing them they got out of passenger rail !

@davidaldinger113 29 күн бұрын

One problem VIA has is that it doesn’t have any statutory authority. It only exists be cabinet fiat and serves many fewer places because certain have cut the network unilaterally which is 100 percent wrong.