VIA Rail slashes E&N Dayliner fares
The E&N Dayliner makes its way into downtown Victoria alongside Esquimalt Road in Vic West. Photo © by VibrantVictoria.ca.
This morning VIA Rail announced a sizable fare cut for travel on its E&N Dayliner route through July 31, 2010.
VIA Rail operates a once-daily E&N Dayliner train service between downtown Victoria and the mid-Island town of Courtenay. The trip takes approximately 4 and a half hours, with the train departing Victoria in the morning and returning by the early evening.
Fares must be purchased by the April 25th deadline to qualify for the discount up to 60% off the regular rates.
For more information on the deal, click here.
To discuss E&N Dayliner operations on the VibrantVictoria.ca discussion forum, click here.
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LJ
May 09, 2012 at 10:01 pmQuote: What took you so long? j/k, OK, awesome. 13 years, wow, didn't think it was that long.
Very interesting.
Did anyone miss it?
dasmo
May 10, 2012 at 9:54 amIt's about missing it down the road when the collwood crawl takes 2 hours to do....
VicHockeyFan
May 10, 2012 at 10:10 amQuote: It's about missing it down the road when thecollwood crawl takes 2 hours to do ....
Are you anticipating another 40,000 downtown workers or something? Our work-force is barely increasing, here or anywhere in the country.
Quote: ...Statistics Canada projects that the (Canadian) population aged 20 to 64 will grow from 21.8 million this year to 22.1 million in 2031. Over the same period, the number of Canadians between the “prime” working ages of 25 and 54 increases from 14.9 to 15.1 million
See those figures? That means negligible growth of the working-age population over the
Add to that telecommuting, growing services in Wescom, more government services available online (ie. no need to drive into town to see the tax man) and I think you don't have to worry about the traffic getting all that much worse on the crawl.
Fairbanks
May 10, 2012 at 10:12 amSpelled, "Colwood". One L
dasmo
May 10, 2012 at 11:26 amthe extra l was for the extra hour
