Of course they do. We built this country with a railroad and Canadians have been complaining about VIA for eons. Not everyone wants to fly.

On a mental health mini vavation A train is so relaxing it really is the superior way to travel.

High speed rail in Canada is a good investment. It’s the kind of ambitious nation-building that actually makes Canada more resilient etc. No surprise, far-right Pierre Poilievre says he’d cancel it, saying it will go over budget. Spoiler—it will. Just like EVERY car highway does. But he likes those.

What our elected leaders don’t seem to understand is that public transportation IS sovereignty!! Public housing is sovereignty Affordable essentials is sovereignty When we have our needs met we are more resilient & less vulnerable to extremism.

The future of transportation is electric rail. Whether our elected officials begin the infrastructure building process a hundred years ago or in the future, the math doesn’t change. Electric rail is the most economical & efficient way to transport people long distance from one place to another.

Nation almost excited to see how bad Via Rail can get after Carney’s spending cuts (podcast)

We deserve better trains

What if Trump crippling regional airlines in the US is the push thru finally need to get a modern rail system?

Well into my eighth hour on this @viarailcanada.bsky.social train (which is outside Markham and not moving) from Ottawa to Toronto and wondering if we might be able to get regular-speed rail in this country.

It will never not be upsetting to me that New Brunswick had better intercity public transportation half a century ago than today. Our leaders should be ashamed & mortified.

Women don't care about the Cybertruck. Women only want one thing; and it's a 1941 North Shore Electroliner by Saint Louis Car Company.

Can’t wait to find out how many high speed rail projects will be funded out of today’s budget bill that includes “generational investments” in federal infrastructure! 🤡 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Public transport investment usually has a return on investment of 4:1 (for every £1 invested, the economy grows by £4), but done well it can do even better than that Great example here

“This a story about an enjoyable train journey... And a testament to just how good train travel can be, even in a country that has done everything possible to cripple it.” Big oof youtu.be/c2MGauUIUNc?...

TRAINS

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

I am becoming increasingly concerned about the lack of viable public transit paired with astronomical car pricing. Car ownership is the new feudalism, designed to keep us in predatory debt traps as lifelong renters and I am not here for it.

Once more for the people in the back: 📢 train networks are nation-building!! Instead of pipelines, carney should be focusing on high speed rail networks for people & goods

trains are magic and it’s so embarrassing that the richest country in the history of the world is all “high speed rail? nah we don’t need it”

About a hundred or so years ago, people from Fredericton commuted to Marysville via train to work at the cotton mill, and vice versa. The train took fifteen minutes, from a station near where the Coffee Mill is now, to a station near where the apartments on Brunswick Street back onto the trail.

👀 now do saint john!

Canadians built Air Canada and our airports with decades of public investment. Now we have a privatized airline cutting service, abandoning workers, and pocketing bailouts. If we’re footing the bill anyway, shouldn’t they serve the public—not shareholders?

1 like = 1 passenger rail project idea

1 like = 1 passenger rail project idea

This 1979 #book about #streetcars in #SaintJohn includes an account of the 1914 #strike. Illustrated with #B&W #photos. $25. #Booksky #LocalHistory #SocialHistory #NewBrunswick #labour #transit #transportation

I think it's very cool that the Ocean has been running for this long. It's great that the station has been refurbished. Now. About the frequency and reliability issues that plague it. globalnews.ca/video/112888...

Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?

Never forget what they took from us

I literally cannot emphasize enough how much a high-speed and high-density train system would improve everyone’s quality of life in this country.

Can you imagine if Canada’s small towns had train service like this? Hop on for a little day trip and hike, catch the train back at sunset. We could have this if we invested in rail.

I know we don't have the population base for this. But I'm jealous. I just looked and I can get a $10 return train or bus ticket Toronto to Niagara Falls. Summer bus service. Freddy/SJ to Saint Andrews? Miramichi/Moncton to Fundy? etc etc. I know, compare millions of people to tens of thousands.

Saint John Mystery Guild asking all the hard-hitting questions that locals want to know!!

This is one of the few times where I’d say “read the comments” 😉

Correction, that’s a “1 hour flight” plus an hour to get to the airport, plus arrival at the airport 90 mins early, plus travel at the destination from a remote spot an hour out of town….

"Rail Cruise" is actually the perfect way of thinking about how VIA Rail works in Atlantic Canada. I can only use the train to make inter-city trips because I have a fairly high level of autonomy at my job (the train being 6 hours late doesn't matter). Even then it routinely hits my sanity cap.

Mortifying.

canada needs high speed rail is bluesky's new brunswick needs one airport

I feel this so hard 😭

I apologize for saying you were rude @davidmoscrop.com

Although I passionately care about trains, trams, and streetcars, it has been hard for me to think about these things seriously with *waves hands at the world* this going on.

RUDE. @davidmoscrop.com

Canadian government expected to announce plans for Toronto–Montréal–Québec City high-speed rail tomorrow: www.thestar.com/politics/fed... A very promising project that compares well with high-speed lines in Europe in terms of distance between major cities: www.urban.org/research/pub...

It’s the same story in Canada. In an era where air travel is becoming less safe, less reliable, and more expensive, this is an absolute travesty. Rail is the transportation of our past & our future, whether we like it or not.

We've said it before and we'll say it again, Albertans want to take the train. It should also be noted that a large number of Albertans want LRT funded. Albertans want rail network built as soon as possible: government survey results edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/… via @edmontonjournal

On this day, 100 yrs ago, cars were given priority over pedestrians in the streets of the US. It began Jan. 24, 1925, when the 1st "jaywalker" was arrested in Los Angeles. Until then, it had been a city of walkers, with an extensive street railway network. Victim shaming started right away... 🚶‍♂️🧵

I took the train from Toronto to Moncton some years ago. (I had a sleeper). Definitely my favourite way to travel distances. Our obsession with “saving time” has lead us not to value the quality of the time we spend, and the cost of that efficiency - both for ourselves, and the environment.

Amazing how an 18 hour train ride in a non-sleeper car can be more pleasant than a two hour Air Canada flight.