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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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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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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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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By Transport Action | Urban Transit
Transport Action board members attended the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) conference in Toronto from November 17-20, 2024 and the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium’s (CUTRIC) Zero Emission Transit and Mobility Conference, held in Burlington in October. Ongoing collaboration with both of these industry organizations is vital to furthering our advocacy for passengers […]
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