Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free january photo Calgary Marcher spreads rail truth about new look via trains run slow As old ones by Alex Binkley the Canadian press the first Day of work for the new look via rail yesterday seemed a lot like the old trains ran late and people protested the cutting of passenger train service by the departure of the court saved Esqui Mau and Nanaimo train on Vancouver Island was delayed by mechanical problems and the last westbound Canadian was running several hours behind in via president Ron Lawless said canadians must get Over their romantic idealism about passenger the survival of passenger trains must be based not on romantic idealism but on Lon term economic other via trains which dont attract enough passengers could also get the he trains to ride via spokesman Paul Raynor said the company would soon Start telling canadians there Are still trains to he said it would have done Little Good for the company to Start publicizing its remaining services while the news Media was full of stories about the cuts and the loss of popular trains across the country including the world famous via will be watching How Many people Board trains the trains still operating car ried about two thirds of via Passen Gers and the company is trying to decide How Best to keep those travel lers and attract the Halifax Chroni Leherald reported a submit Ted by a called or hold Ings which proposes beginning a passenger service in the West and expanding within four years to take Over a network of eight Long haul routes including Toronto to Hali fax and Halifax to Montreal by we Are in the process of completing a formal proposal to submit to via and the Canadian government to privatize All the Long hauls in Canada outside the corridor in Quebec and or spokesman Bruce Richardson was quoted As the newspaper said the group has asked for a moratorium on the Sale of via routes and the Fleet of rail diesel known As following a Federal government decision last october to whittle its annual subsidies to million by 1992 from million in Richardson ours proposal was delivered monday to Charles the Man in charge of divesting via rail routes and equip ours plan is dependent on Feder Al subsidies totalling about 7 million Over the first nine or 10 years of operation about million less than is currently planned Over the same Richardson via officials were still sorting through employee lists yesterday to determine who took Early retire had lost their jobs or whose salary was at least partly protected by Job and employment Security upscale train to debut As canadians mourned the last run of via rails transcontinental train the Canadian a to Ronto tour company ran newspaper ads offering to continue an upscale version of the service almost seven times the a great Canadian tradition has not been its about to a the published yesterday in the Globe and financial Post and financial it was also no coincidence that the ads for the luxury the great began running the same Day As the Canadian made its last run and cuts to More than half of via rail Canada Pas Senger train service went into of we thought it was a significant Date because it was the last Day of the Canadian and we wanted to let people know that the tradition con Michelle a spokes Man for Blyth and tour opera Koerner said the luxury train will use the same Scenic up rail route through the Rocky mountains that the Canadian the Canadian will cease running along the up but via will continue to operate transcontinental service three times a week along the Les Scenic in rail main one Way fares for a trip on the great Canadian from Toronto to Vancouver Range from per passenger to Koerner said the Price includes All meals and fight for via faulted the liberals and nip used their majority in the legislature yesterday to Force an emergency debate on cuts to via the provincial government has done too Little to fight the Federal which Mark the end of Cana Das National rail Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs charged As via trains moved through Winnipeg on some of their final transcontinental she lashed the Filmon conserva Tives for failing to join a court Challenge to the cuts by British which charges that Ottawa violated a constitutional Guaran tee to provide that province with rail nip transportation critic John Lohman Dauphin also charged the Manitoba government has been too he said Northern train services will be the next to but transportation minister Al Bert Driedger said he did not know what More the opposition expects the government to he said he has made at least 11 written presentations opposing the cuts and travelled to Ottawa to appear before a House of commons one thing Manitoba won was a Promise to preserve Northern rail services for five he Premier Gary Filmon said the liberals Are hypocrites because Jeanluc transport minister in the former Trudeau has said several senior Cabinet ministers at the time wanted to 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