Transport Action Canada is delighted by the federal government’s announcement of full funding to replace VIA Rail Canada’s heritage stainless steel fleet and life-expired Renaissance cars for long-distance and remotes services across Canada. We are also encouraged by the preamble to the announcement, which acknowledged the importance of services across Canada and the growing preference …
Transport Action Canada, founded as Transport 2000 Canada in 1977, is the nation’s leading citizen transportation advocacy group. We represent the interests of consumers or users of public transport services in Canada. Here are some of the main issues that our advocacy work revolves around:
- the development of rail passenger services in Canada;
- the future of inter-city bus services and their connectivity to rail and air services;
- urban and commuter transit systems;
- the implications to consumers of the deregulated airline industry in Canada;
- the impact on the public interest of demands for new highway spending
We're here to help you get there.
We exist to advocate on your behalf so that the decision makers understand the needs of passengers, and follow through on what they promise. That new bus stop. That construction being complete. More bus or train times... So on. And we'd love to keep you in the loop.
Annual General Meeting 2024 and VIA Rail History Presentation
Transport Action Canada invites all members and supporters to join us for our Annual General Meeting for 2024 on April 27th, with guest presentation VIA Rail: A History of Connecting Canadians by author, historian, and archivist for the VIA Historical Association Christopher Greenlaw. With VIA on the cusp of a new era in the Quebec-Windsor corridor …
VIA Rail taking CN to Canadian Transportation Agency
VIA Rail has taken a case (Number: 23-28548) before the Canada Transportation Agency against Canadian National under clause 152.1 of the Canada Transportation Act. No details of the application made by VIA Rail nor CN’s response are public at this time, but based on statements in previous VIA Rail annual reports and corporate plans about …
Metrolinx CEO confirms that HFR will be accommodated at Toronto Union Station
During virtual testimony to the House of Commons Transportation Committee, Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster confirmed to committee members that Metrolinx is indeed working to accommodate the VIA HFR project at Union Station in Toronto.
...Meeting with VIA-HFR
Transport Action Canada president Terry Johnson, Ontario region president Peter Miasek, and board member Adam Mills met with VIA-HFR executives Jacques Fauteux, Director of Strategic Engagement, and Jim Gray, incoming Director of Community Relations in Ontario for the project in Toronto. to discuss the VIA HFR project.
...Failure to renew long-distance fleet would doom VIA Rail
Transport Action has written to Canada’s ministers of Transport, Finance, and Infrastructure with a stark warning: Unless the government commits to funding the replacement of the long-distance train fleet, allowing procurement to start in 2024, all of VIA Rail Canada’s passenger train services outside the Windsor to Quebec City corridor will have to be withdrawn …