I admit my own ignorance. Thanks for the link! :)

End-point to end-point? Yes, of course. Probably Toronto to NYC through ridership would be a little higher if the Maple Leaf operated on a night schedule as, according to Google Flights, the first Air Canada plane lands in Newark at 10.15. Skipping to a night service would also potentially shave...

We should not put the cart before the horse but, considering the recent past, that doesn't look promising: it has been cuts after cuts after cuts for decades. Why should it be any different now? That has happened before, so I feel for anyone fearing further doses of the same treatment. This...

Basically, that's what happens in the US with state-supported regional corridors. If Alberta really wants an intercity service between Edmonton and Calgary, they should support it with provincial funding instead of wasting money on fancy HSR projects. There's a reason why other countries in...

Pardon my ignorance: what exactly is a JPO? 😅

Yeah, that's true. If the HFR manages to make a dent in all of that, well... so be it. 🤷‍♂️ Still, not my cup of tea, but I'll be gladly saying "I stand corrected."

I'm starting to get a little bit worried about the cab-cars... Amtrak hasn't received theirs either, yet. :(

I don't know, therefore I raise my white flag on this. 🏳 EDIT: However, drawing on @roger1818 comment, one must take in consideration the potential ridership that would arise with better connections. If the service is unreliable, you get 400 passengers a day, that goes without saying.

That's the same here as well. Trenitalia (which, on a National level operates both HSR and conventional intercity services) too offers commuter passes; however, the reservation was compulsory on HSR services only. A few years ago compulsory reservation was extended to conventional intercity...

I absolutely agree: there should be more regional service with a consistent schedule and stopping pattern. Skipping stops here and there, almost randomly, isn't helping at all. Nobody, exactly. But that further proves my point: if I had to entrain in Oshawa or Belleville, en route to Montréal...

IMHO, both types of services should co-exist. It's not up to me to say which proportions should be maintained between stopping and non-stopping services, but I would say that a Kingston–Toronto semi-fast service, stopping in Belleville and Oshawa only, wouldn't be that bad considering the...

Calling a 250 km long service "suburban" is quite funny. 😅 But I get your idea. If it were, i.e., 8–12 regional departures/day to Toronto, and 6 regional departures/day each to Ottawa and Montréal, without eliminating through services à la #42 (Toronto–Ottawa), and #66 (Toronto–Montréal)...

You are technically right on that. Aren't Canadian provinces akin to the various US states? If so, they are, on a different level, similar to German Länder, or federal states. I've never heard of a German Land doing stuff in its own way regarding transportation issues bypassing or avoiding...

Well, my hopes are that it doesn't become, again, a commuter service only. This! Thank you @crs1026 for pointing that out. I should have written it myself in my previous comment.

I don't like monopolies, first and foremost. Being technically employed by a "rival" company, I genuinely oppose my nation's national operator, Trenitalia, and the shady and non-transparent separation present within the Ferrovie dello Stato holding. But that can be said for most European...

Quoting from the link provided: Ah, the good ol' "commuter service" approach: a handful of trains in the morning to the big city, a handful of trains in the evening to get back home. Like if that actually worked. I seriously hope a bunch of #651s is not what VIA plans for the Lakeshore because...

While I completely agree with you on the topic of hydrogen vs batteries, in that batteries have only been substantially tried and tested over very short distances and very light consists, I'll have to remind you that Europe is not only Southern Italy. There are countries whose railways enjoy all...

Excuse me, that is exactly what I did. I asked whether through trains were going to remain on the Lakeshore line or not. 😅 It was a genuine question because to me the verb "to originate" means that services literally come into being from a place and, since Kingston is more or less halfway...

You can't reasonably be talking about "habitualizing" intercity train travel, and then pretend that they mostly connect Toronto, Ottawa, and Montréal only. I'm sorry, that's not intercity travel: it's a poor man's HSR. Oh, I would actually love to see such a proposal. I couldn't find it...

Longer? It seems to be a lot shorter to me, considering that Prescott to Ottawa, via Kemptville, is basically a straight line, while to get to Ottawa via the Brockville and Smiths Falls Subs the train geographically turns west... 😅