Regional and Intercity Bus\Rail Transportation

[roger1818]

Originally Posted by Truenorth00

If you can figure out how to pay for it, we can have better. The whole reason HFR was put forward was because we've failed to have any political support for HSR for decades. Ironically, authoritarian regimes tend to build HSR as prestige projects and can do so, for much cheaper.

It’s funny how things are cheaper when you underpay your workforce.

[Truenorth00]

Originally Posted by roger1818

It’s funny how things are cheaper when you underpay your workforce.

Also cheaper if you don't have to pay fair compensation when you take property or account for environmental damage properly. Funny, how all the railfans talking about how great China or Uzbekistan is, would never want to actually live there.

[Richard Eade]

Is it possible that someone at FlixBus reads this forum? Article in CTVNews says that FlixBus now stops at the Ottawa VIA Rail Station.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/flixbus-adds-via-rail-station-as-stop-for-ottawa-passengers/

[rocketphish]

Flixbus, now in 3 provinces, wants to connect Canada in the wake of Greyhound's demise
German company says mileage has doubled year-over-year since 2022

Paula Duhatschek · CBC News
Posted: Aug 10, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: August 10

Four years after Greyhound abruptly left Canada, a German company is banking on Canadian travellers still having plenty of appetite for the good old-fashioned bus.

Flixbus, established in Munich in 2013, offers low-cost bus service in a distinctive, bright green package. The company, which operates in more than 40 countries, started offering intercity bus trips throughout Europe and entered the North American market with routes on the west coast of the U.S. in 2018.

The company scooped up the Greyhound brand shortly after it left Canada in 2021. It started offering cross-border trips between the U.S. and Canada, followed by domestic service in Canada in 2022. It's doubled its Canadian mileage in this country every year since, it said.

"We're going to make Flix travel top of mind for anyone planning a long journey in Canada," said Dallas-based Kai Boysan, CEO of Flix North America.

The company currently operates in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan and it hopes to soon add interprovincial transit to Manitoba.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/flixbus-canada-business-1.7604811