Don't expect anything to change with regards to the railways.
They have been guaranteed to make a profit moving goods across this country for years. They have closed branch lines in favour of stopping the flow of traffic on the main lines. Then with their cost savings and profit the railways are too ****ing stupid to twin the lines from east of winnipeg to west of calgary to speed the process up.
This country could be running a world class rail system instead we get excuses from every level of government and every railway.
If you compare the investment made by farmers,as a whole, to improve their farms to what the railways have spent to improve their service - farmers win hands down.
That would explain why farmers can take a crop off in 45 days and it takes the railways over 300 to move it to the west coast.
But I digress, the federal government of any stripe is not going to pressure the railways to do anything. Jack won't because of the unions. The liberals won't because the boardrooms are stacked with liberals and much the same for the conservatives. It is an incestuous relationship.
They have been guaranteed to make a profit moving goods across this country for years. They have closed branch lines in favour of stopping the flow of traffic on the main lines. Then with their cost savings and profit the railways are too ****ing stupid to twin the lines from east of winnipeg to west of calgary to speed the process up.
This country could be running a world class rail system instead we get excuses from every level of government and every railway.
If you compare the investment made by farmers,as a whole, to improve their farms to what the railways have spent to improve their service - farmers win hands down.
That would explain why farmers can take a crop off in 45 days and it takes the railways over 300 to move it to the west coast.
But I digress, the federal government of any stripe is not going to pressure the railways to do anything. Jack won't because of the unions. The liberals won't because the boardrooms are stacked with liberals and much the same for the conservatives. It is an incestuous relationship.
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