Via Rail won’t establish minimum content requirements for the new trains it plans to order for Canada’s main railway corridor that transports millions of passengers annually. A spokesperson for Bombardier Inc.’s railway division called the Via Rail project interesting. About 94 per cent of the nearly four million passengers Via Rail carries annually travel on the Quebec City to Windsor corridor. Via Rail president Yves Desjardins-Siciliano said the funding will improve service by ensuring uninterrupted access along the busy rail corridor. Via Rail was created by the federal government in 1977 to take over intercity passenger service provided by Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway.

Source: thestar March 19, 2018 16:41 UTC