VIA Rail: Strike won’t affect Dayliner
VIA Rail announced yesterday that the E&N Dayliner will continue to run even if labour action hobbles the rest of Canada’s rail network.
VIA Rail's Dayliner makes a stop in Courteney, BC. The line is immune to CAW strike action. Creative Commons image by Flickr user Sean_Marshall.
As the possibility of a cross-Canada work stoppage loomed, VIA Rail assured passengers that because the Victoria-Courtney train service is run by a third party it will be unaffected by the threat of a strike.
The Dayliner rail service, also known as the Malahat, is run by Southern Railway of Vancouver Island on behalf of VIA Rail and operates on track owned by the non-profit Island Corridor Foundation.
Much of VIA Rail’s unionized employees are represented by the Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW). Management will run skeleton crews and economy class-only service on strike-affected routes.
VIA Rail also said that an unrelated fire on a bridge truss interrupted weekend service between Parksville and Courtney and that passengers had to be bussed to their destination before the damage was repaired Monday.
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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
