![]() Also needed is a track-sharing agreement with Ontario’s Toronto-centric Metrolinx commuter network that operates Union Station. Another critical bit of cooperation will be needed to slot the new trains through the Mont-Royal tunnel owned by the new light rail commuter system Réseau express métropolitain (REM) due to start running driverless trains next year. The current proposed route map (above) shows VIA Rail would continue to depend on CN rail traffic control between Montreal Central Station and the Les Coteaux junction with VIA Rail’s own ex-Canadian Pacific main line to Ottawa. (Reduced local service would continue on the CN lines to serve the existing station stops.) The HFR scheme would see conventional trainsets operating at speeds up to 124 mph (200 kph) on new and existing track north of the CN main lines that VIA Rail now uses between Quebec City and Toronto. It is notably a parliamentary seat that Trudeau’s Liberals are determined to win back from Quebec’s perennial nationalist faction. The choice of Trois-Rivières for the formal announcement was not only because the small French-speaking city would enjoy the return of regular passenger service. A solicitation for service “delivery models” evokes VIA Rail’s original vision in which the infrastructure and trains would be publicly owned, while train operations would be franchised to independent operators-much like the hybrid system in the United Kingdom that mostly collapsed in the pandemic lockdown.īoldly obvious in the rising temperature of Transport Canada’s HFR routine is the intention of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call an election this autumn, riding a wavelet of approval for a successful vaccination rollout and the failure of his unremarkable rivals to erode the government’s poll numbers. Since then, VIA Rail owner Transport Canada, through a public-relations strategy, has revealed just enough in the way of money and maps to keep railway suppliers awake in their seats.ĭifferent this time is a commitment to invite actual bids later this year for some $4.8 billion (C$6 billion) worth of roadbed, track, catenary, signaling and trainsets. VIA Rail Canada’s concept to link Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto with a dedicated and electrified main line snapped together from bits of legacy rights-of-way was first detailed by then VIA Rail CEO Yves Desjardins-Siciliano to Railway Age in 2015. ![]() ‘Young Professionals’ Conference: Fast Tracking Your Careerįormer VIA Rail CEO Yves Desjardins-Siciliano.USDOT: An Additional $24MM for RIA Program Projects.Giulietti Joins TYLin as Director, Rail Transit Services.First Look: BART’s MERMEC Geometry Car in Action.Louis MetroLink, Calgary Green Line LRT, SEPTA, BCT Transit Briefs: Metrolinx, PANYNJ, St.Now On Line: Railway Age May 2023 Digital Edition.New York State’s FY 2024 Budget Intended to ‘Save’ NYMTA.Transit Briefs: LA Metro, VIA Rail, SacRT.Watco Rolls Out iPads With Compl圓65’s Mobile App.CARB Passes New In-Use Locomotive Regulation (Updated 5/3).AAR: For April, Intermodal ‘Continues to Suffer’.Transit Briefs: Amtrak, Metrolinx, NYMTA, TransLink.Trinity’s Savage: ‘Busy’ Start to 2023 (TD Cowen Update, May 4).CN Updates 2023 Guidance, Reflecting ‘Strong’ 1Q Outlines 3-Year Financial Perspective (UPDATED, May 4).CPKC, Teck Announce Long-Term Rail Agreement.
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