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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
My fixation on a daily train to major cities has to do with one word that can stop cars, trucks, buses and planes....
W-I-N-T-E-R
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Even if we pretend for a second that VIA trains aren't also affected by winter conditions (they are), it still doesn't make up for the routine ability of VIA to be late, delayed, or MIA altogether on its busiest and most profitable routes during any normal operating time.
24 hour delay due to prairie snowstorm:
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/via...-more-than-24-hours-by-prairie-snowstorm
The infamous 41 hour delayed Canadian
https://www.narcity.com/en-ca/news/via-r...service-running-41-hours-behind-schedule
Winter's extreme weather made trains extremely late, Via Rail reports
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat...ely-late-via-rail-reports/article675745/
Two anecdotes
- One of my winter trips with VIA from Toronto to Ottawa was delayed five hours during the trip (doubling the travel time). For my suffering they offered me 50% off my next VIA ticket if purchased in the next six months.
- One of my trips on The Ocean was five+ hours late when it arrived in Moncton.
You won't find many bigger supporters of train travel than me but VIA is woefully bad far too often for the service it should be providing.
To its merit, and it's not entirely comparable, I don't think i've ever experienced a delay on any GO train in my experience. If I did it was no more than five minutes.
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