After the holiday chaos, Via Rail has melted down again – sadly this will continue
Another meltdown across the Quebec-Windsor, Ont., corridor routes during the first weekend of February, previously unreported, demonstrates that these snafus are becoming routine at– and throughout Canada’s frayed multimodal transportation system, including the highways and air services.
A request for a clarification was not immediately answered by Via’s media centre staff. But one thing is clear regardless: This recent meltdown, as with all the other ones, reflects Via’s long history of brokenness and deterioration. Sadly, it will not be the last of its kind.
The railways slowly and reluctantly shed their passenger trains, which had once been sources of corporate pride. A Conservative riff on this perverse blame game rode along with the Brian Mulroney government’s axing of half the Via system in 1990. During the 1984 election campaign, the Tories promised to modernize and expand Via. The Mulroney government then blamed the 1990 cuts on the public. Their feeble line was that Canadians weren’t using the trains enough to justify the promised modernization, even though Via ridership had been rising.
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