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Originally Posted by milomilo
If HFR gets built and is successful, then the future should be more optimistic. If VIA continues the status quo of garbage service for all, then there is little hope. Service will get worse and worse, the equipment older and older and there will be less and less support in the population to preserve the service just because it was so nice in the 50s.
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Freight loads are growing. And a lot of VIA's services are getting sidelined more and more. If HFR doesn't happen, I think we see the end of VIA as a federal crown corp inside 15 years. Either shut down or broken up to private operators or the provinces.
If HFR happens, VIA will have freed up some subsidy from the Corridor, and actually made itself relevant to at least half the population. That should position it to have a lot more resources to modernize and expand other services after. There's even some obvious follow-on improvements both regionally, or which bolt on to HFR (The Ocean for example).
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