Saskatchewan communities looking to alter VIA Rail route to boost ridership – Saskatoon | 24CA News
A report was introduced to Saskatoon’s governance and priorities committee on Tuesday to convey a VIA Rail line to attach a number of communities in Saskatchewan and Alberta and create extra reliability.
The report, referred to as “The Canadian on the CN Prairie North Line: A Strategic Solution,” proposed a line that will be diverted from the CN primary line in Melville, hitting different communities like Yorkton, Humboldt, Warman, North Battleford and Lloydminster, then head into Alberta, hitting Vermillion, Vegreville and Edmonton.
It was famous that the present efficiency of the VIA Rail primary line is seeing an absence of reliability for arriving on time, with the report saying delays have been so long as 43 hours.
These delays are being attributed to freight site visitors on CN’s routes.
“On the CN main line between Winnipeg and Edmonton, freight traffic is routinely over 40 trains per day, while the CN Prairie North Line sees an average of three to six trains per day on the line west of Warman,” the report stated.
The report urged that this was a great way of constructing connections with Indigenous communities and giving travellers a chance to expertise extra of the Canadian prairies.
Lloydminster Mayor Gerald Aalbers spoke on the assembly on behalf of lots of the communities listed within the report, hoping for Saskatoon metropolis council to assist the report in precept and for the town to formally request the federal minister of transportation to direct VIA Rail to get a capability evaluation report relating to the CN Prairie north line.
He stated they’ve been making an attempt to talk with VIA Rail about this proposal, and the corporate has seen it.
Mayor Charlie Clark introduced ahead a movement for metropolis administration to report again after discussing how this would possibly influence tourism in Saskatoon with the Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority and Discover Saskatoon, which handed.
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