@infobeautiful And Cictoria Nanaimo Courtney is abandonned, and while tracks still there more of way, were pulled from downtown Victoria.

@infobeautiful Some of the tracks are physically gone.
Port Hawkesbury to North Sydney is abandonned. About to be pulled out.
Line to Gaspé is half abandonned but there is hope to restore service to Gaspé.

Ottawa-Sudbury (CP) et Ottawa-Capreol (CN) are mostly gone. A short line has kept Sudbury-NorthBay-Mattawa but tracks pulled between Mattawa and Ottawa. CN is all gone.
Senneterre to Cochane no longer connects. But Val d'Or to Kirkland Falls still exists (was no passenger soervice).

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why did we choose poverty

@infobeautiful In Canada, we mostly use our rail lines for freight.

@infobeautiful so what happened to the trains? No demand? Too expensive to run? Snow on the lines?

@infobeautiful we should be so ashamed of ourselves.

@infobeautiful and no more Greyhound

@infobeautiful there's a show called Race Across the World (similar to The Amazing Race but much less about competition, more about character, budget and the joy of travel).

One series was Canada coast-to-coast and the country came across really well. Except that this rich country had almost no public transport.

The other countries on the show, aside from Mongolia (where roads weren't a given!) most routes had bus or train connections. Canada was basically all hitchhiking and ride-shares!

@infobeautiful wow… if they have the rails on the ground, it is pity not to use them as much as possible

the line exists. the schedule exists. they've agreed not to discuss this.

@infobeautiful I kind of understand why america doesn't have bullet trains (they went full retard: never go full retard). But how the hell Canada doesn't have a Quebec-Montreal-Toronto bullet train line??