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Name one Amtrak long distance route that services cities the with populations similar to those on the Calgary to Toronto route.

One upside to Canada (officially) becoming the 51st State could be improved passenger rail service. Might be easier to provide direct...

Understandable. I was trying to bring things back to the topic at hand, but may not have been clear on that. It could very well be...

Apologies. I thought the conversation had shifted to transit agencies. Even after ONR buses went to online passenger ticket sales, I...

Last I checked TTC was a transit agency, not an intercity transportation service. As for your claim that all intercity transportation...

ONR is a Transportation service, not a Transit agency. AFAIK, VIA doesn't take cash onboard.

No one takes cash anymore, so I would doubt if it will be accepted onboard.

Getting off topic, but OC Transpo didn't "want" to buy into Presto, they were coerced into it by the province. Basically they were told...

With the the exception of the few ONR-owned stations that will be used, the third-party owned former stations might have indoor areas...

My guess is cost. The town (who owns the building) would rather rent the space to a tenant who will pay more than what ONR would like to...

I agree. What people tend to forget is that it is easy to get capital funding to build infrastructure, but it is much harder to keep...

The current tenants are a vet clinic (in what I think was the old 'freight shed'), and and a taxi service. There used to be a...

I do agree, the dollars and cents case is probably favourable or close to break-even. It doesn't take that many seats filled to pay for...

I'm not so sure that the Venture set length is truly optimal. As others have said it was picked to allow a seat for seat replacement for...