Re:America's True Unemployment Rate
by volkl48 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:05AM
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I'm not sure "technically runs a bus, which may or may not be practical to use" is the most useful metric here.
While I certainly agree there are substantial bright spots in parts of Canada for transit investment, there's also big and worsening issues.
Rural inter-city transit has been getting drastically worse out in much of country.
VIA Rail has mostly been in a long-term downward spiral of cuts/"service suspensions" outside the main Ontario/Quebec corridor.
Inter-city buses aren't much better. Recent years have had Greyhound giving up and quitting Western Canada, and Saskatchewan shutting down their inter-city bus company. The result being limited patchwork of services not coming anywhere close to the kind of service that used to be provided.
While I certainly agree there are substantial bright spots in parts of Canada for transit investment, there's also big and worsening issues.
Rural inter-city transit has been getting drastically worse out in much of country.
VIA Rail has mostly been in a long-term downward spiral of cuts/"service suspensions" outside the main Ontario/Quebec corridor.
Inter-city buses aren't much better. Recent years have had Greyhound giving up and quitting Western Canada, and Saskatchewan shutting down their inter-city bus company. The result being limited patchwork of services not coming anywhere close to the kind of service that used to be provided.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/29/canada-greyhou...
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-one-y...