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Cadence wins $3.9B High Speed Rail development contract but delivery timeline is cause for concern

By Transport Action | Intercity Rail and Bus

On February 20, 2025, Canada’s Minister of Transport Anita Anand announced that the Cadence consortium has been selected as the winner of the VIA-HFR Request for Proposals that was published on October 13, 2023. VIA-HFR was rebranded as “Alto” and, as we anticipated, the high-speed 300 km/h+ option in the bid was confirmed. After decades […]

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VIA Rail Struggling with Fleet Availability

By Transport Action | Intercity Rail and Bus

One daily roundtrip between Ottawa and Toronto and some weekend departures have been cut from VIA Rail’s schedule at least until at least March 2025 as the company struggles with fleet availability. Caught between the need to retire its legacy corridor fleet, including life-expired LRC cars, and availability issues with the new Siemens Venture fleet, […]

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Book Review: How The Railways Will Fix The Future

By Ken Westcar | Intercity Rail and Bus

Reviewed by Ken Westcar, board member of Transport Action Ontario Railway historians, enthusiasts and planners will revel in this compendium of industry experience, logic and pragmatism. In How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road Gareth Dennis leverages his career in UK railway engineering and global research to […]

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Ottawa’s Trillium Line re-opens

By Tim Hayman | Ontario , Urban Transit

Ottawa’s Trillium Line light rail re-opened on December 6, 2024. Transport Action Atlantic president Tim Hayman was in Ottawa and provided this report on the first trip. By rather happy coincidence, I found myself in Ottawa during the week of the O-Train Line 2/4 opening. January 6th marked the official start of revenue service on […]

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Alberta Moving Quickly to Advance Regional Rail

By Transport Action | Intercity Rail and Bus , Latest News , Prairies

The province of Alberta hosted a passenger rail forum on November 22, 2024. Transport Action was represented at the forum and we have positive news from the event.

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