Download or read book VIA Rail written by Chris Greenlaw, Christopher C. N. Greenlaw and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canada by Train written by Chris Hanus and published by Way of the Rail Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VIA Rail, Canada's national passenger train service, makes visiting this breathtaking country a truly memorable journey. Canada by Train is the complete guidebook to train travel with VIA Rail. Full of useful facts and vivid photographs, this guide provides current, comprehensive details on train services and safety measures. The guide features over 500 full-color illustrations and photographs; updated information on schedules, fares and pass options; mile-by-mile route guides; practical suggestions on traveling light, settling in sleepers and coaches; and more.--From publisher description.
Download or read book VIA Rail Canada Inc and the Future of Passenger Rail in Canada written by Jean Dupuis and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over its 33-year history, VIA Rail Canada Inc. has managed its (non-legislated) mandate of maintaining passenger rail services with relatively limited resources. It has improved its operational efficiency in recent years despite ongoing constraints, including its lack of independence from federal Cabinet decision-making, its reliance on unpredictable federal subsidies, the sharing of rail tracks and other fixed facilities with CNR and CPR, and the fact that it has little or no latitude in deciding whether to focus on profitable routes or discard uneconomical ones. At current funding levels, together with an aging rolling stock and rail infrastructure, VIA's capacity to deliver passenger rail services will eventually begin to decline. High-speed rail has often been proclaimed as the possible future for passenger rail in Canada, but the prohibitive price tag associated with developing and building such a complex system presents a huge challenge to governments and public finances. The current economic climate, uncertainty associated with the future growth potential of high-speed passenger rail, the availability of alternative and competitively priced modes of transportation, and VIA's continued reliance on government support, all conspire against the introduction of high-speed rail in the near term in Canada.
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Download or read book The Great Canadian Prairies Bucket List written by Robin Esrock and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-02-06 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned travel writer and TV host Robin Esrock has explored every inch of Canada’s Prairies to craft the definitive Bucket List. From food and culture to nature and adrenaline rushes, Robin has the inspiration and information you’ll need to follow in his footsteps and discover everything Manitoba and Saskatchewan have to offer.
Download or read book VIA Rail Canada Inc and the future of passenger rail in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over its 33-year history, VIA Rail Canada Inc. has managed its (non-legislated) mandate of maintaining passenger rail services with relatively limited resources. It has improved its operational efficiency in recent years despite ongoing constraints, including its lack of independence from federal Cabinet decision-making, its reliance on unpredictable federal subsidies, the sharing of rail tracks and other fixed facilities with CNR and CPR, and the fact that it has little or no latitude in deciding whether to focus on profitable routes or discard uneconomical ones. At current funding levels, together with an aging rolling stock and rail infrastructure, VIA's capacity to deliver passenger rail services will eventually begin to decline. High-speed rail has often been proclaimed as the possible future for passenger rail in Canada, but the prohibitive price tag associated with developing and building such a complex system presents a huge challenge to governments and public finances. The current economic climate, uncertainty associated with the future growth potential of high-speed passenger rail, the availability of alternative and competitively priced modes of transportation, and VIA's continued reliance on government support, all conspire against the introduction of high-speed rail in the near term in Canada.
Download or read book Waiting on a Train written by James McCommons and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.
Download or read book New Departures written by Anthony Perl and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North America faces a transportation crisis. Gas-guzzling SUVs clog the highways and air travelers face delays, cancellations, and uncertainty in the wake of unprecedented terrorist attacks. New Departures closely examines the options for improving intercity passenger trains' capacity to move North Americans where they want to go. While Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada face intense pressure to transform themselves into successful commercial enterprises, Anthony Perl demonstrates how public policy changes lie behind the triumphs of European and Japanese high-speed rail passenger innovations. Perl goes beyond merely describing these achievements, translating their implications into a North American institutional and political context and diagnosing the obstacles that have made renewing passenger trains so much more difficult in North America than elsewhere. New Departures links the lessons behind rail passenger revitalization abroad with the opportunity to recast the policies that constrain Amtrak and VIA Rail from providing efficient and effective intercity transportation.
Download or read book VIA Rail Canada Inc written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overall, we found that VIA had operating procedures and systems and practices allowing it to meet the needs of its customers, mitigate safety risks, and ensure the reliability of its operations, the safeguarding and control of its assets, and the quality of its services. [...] This deficiency had an impact on the implementation of the strategic direction and the fulfillment of the corporate plan, as well as on the monitoring of the Corporation's Special Examination Report-2016 operations. [...] Exhibit 2 Governance-strengths and weaknesses Elements examined Findings Structure, composition, and Strengths functioning of the Board of Directors The structure of the Board of Directors (including its committees) and its governance process reflected the nature and complexity of the Corporation's operations and responsibilities. [...] At the end of 2015, the Corporation's management, with the support of its directors, initiated a review to decrease the volume and enhance the relevance of information shared with directors to enable them to perform their oversight duties in a more effective manner. [...] We also found that VIA needed to improve the documentation of its Safety Management System and that it did not yet have in place all of the necessary mechanisms to measure the effectiveness of the system.
Download or read book The Renaissance of Passenger Rail written by Pierre A. H. Franche and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Interim Report on Passenger Rail Service written by Canada. Parlement. Senat. Comite permanent des transports et des communications and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Patagonian Express written by Paul Theroux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed travel writer journeys by train across the Americas from Boston to Patagonia in this international bestselling travel memoir. Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Paul Theroux takes a grand railway adventure first across the United States and then south through Mexico, Central America, and across the Andes until he winds up on the meandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine. His epic commute finally comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes that reaches toward Antarctica. Along the way, Theroux demonstrates how train travel can reveal “"the social miseries and scenic splendors” of a continent. And through his perceptive prose we learn that what matters most are the people he meets along the way, including the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest of Cali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in having Theroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.
Download or read book Great Lakes St written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fishing Vessel Construction written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 17. Considers legislation to increase fishing vessel construction subsidies.
