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VIA Rail Services Cut in Preparation for Strike

This picture is why it is so nice to commute by train to Toronto. It is also the reason why you might want to book a trip across Canada in the summer by Via , not because you think after all of your hard planning and weird happenings your coveted sleeper car for two seven year olds and their parents is going to be canceled because 340 people can stop this service in Canada.

I don't know how I feel about that -right now quite angry! Keep those points a coming Via I will be able to travel across and back next summer. A kind of doubling up, because now Air travel will go up.

This by the way is a great study for risk management. I suppose if I knew all about the climate of Via I could have seen this coming. However, as it is I found out about this late.

Someone on the train tonight said so did you call via? I said why? And she said oh not because you can do something about it -something like that anyway. But of course I have been following twitter all day and finding out all kinds of stuff.

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Comments (2)

Jul 22, 2009
 said...
Tell us what you found out.
Jul 22, 2009
Tim Middleton said...
tourism is having a slow season and this is going to hurt, lots of stories about people and their vacations and their connections to the train and that Craig Norris's dad used to be a conductor and even in his day engineers made a lot of money. That @VIA_Rail on twitter has not been posting anything, that I really don't like the idea of not traveling across Canada in a train. That there is a comedy festival going on in Montreal. That there should be carbon offsets available for having to travel by plane instead of train out west, that there is not a lot of sympathy for the poor striking engineers.

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