Transport Action Ontario and our affiliate, the Northern and Eastern Ontario Rail Network (NEORN) have jointly issued a media release decrying the extremely poor on-time performance of the Canadian. Data shows that the Canadian from Vancouver to Toronto was on schedule only once between March 2 and June 22, 2017. The blame is placed on […]
Continue readingTAO questions Ontario’s high-speed rail proposal, calls for replacement by a high-performance rail plan Will the Government of Ontario’s wildly optimistic predictions about the benefits of high-speed rail (HSR) actually materialize? The odds are they will not – and here is why. “High-speed rail’s problems stem mainly from implausibly rosy economic predictions followed by deeply […]
Continue readingTORONTO – In a hard-hitting policy statement, the transportation advocacy group, Transport Action Ontario (TAO), calls for the rejection of the provincial government’s high-speed rail (HSR) proposal and its replacement with a more practical, high-performance rail (HPR) alternative. “Will the Government of Ontario’s rosy predictions about the benefits of HSR actually materialize?” asks TAO president […]
Continue readingThis article by TAO board member Ken Westcar and resident of Woodstock ON appeared in the London Free Press in somewhat edited form on June 9, 2017 under the title “Westcar: Upgrading passenger rail makes most sense.” Although there are many critics of the province’s Toronto to Windsor high-speed rail plan it has finally delivered […]
Continue readingTransport Action Ontario to focus on high-performance rail for the North Main Line and revival of the Northlander, By TAO President Robert Wightman, June 5, 2017 The way Canada and Ontario fund, govern and deliver rail passenger service desperately needs change. But to push for those required changes, it has become apparent to the TAO […]
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