• @FireRetardant
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    51 year ago

    More frequent trains serving earlier into the day and later into the night would be needed to service a wider variety of workers and tourism. Removing barriers of entry like bag weighing and multi-stage boarding would be part of modernizing and refining the train’s comeptitive time. Canada is really the only place where trains are trying to emulate airlines, it does not need to be that way.

    As for costs, the highway system is already heavily subsidized, the same mindset should go for the transit system. Tickets should be cheaper than driving, this paired with competitive commute times will influence a larger shift to use the infrastructure. The train shouldn’t exist to make money, it exists to serve communties and connect workers and consummers to economic centers, much like a highway tries to.

    • @Nouveau_Burnswick
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      31 year ago

      I highly agree. Those were just the problems (new or existing) I’ve noticed with Via; there are a multitude of solutions, and while I can offer some, it’s not without the lens of my own travel requirement bias.

      highway system is already heavily subsidized, the same mindset should go for the transit system

      I’m on board there. Highways exist to move goods and services. Private users should pay for their usage of highways, not society. The are a lot of broken systems linked to free-to-user highways.