Put VIA Rail in perspective, ridership is reported as 4.4 million passengers per year,. Close to 90% of this volume is on the Quebec to Windsor corridor, which is about 11,000 passengers per day (or 15,000 per day if we don’t count weekends). VIA says it is only capturing 5% of the passenger volume in the corridor and for $4 billion dollars of investment it could increase this to 15% or about 45,000 passengers per day.
$4,000,000,000.00 Canadian could also buy 50,000 Tesla model 3 cars with long range batteries and enhanced auto pilot. So for this amount of money VIA could have an electric almost self driving car for every one of their tripled ridership, a government owned ride sharing company, lets make it a club and call it VIA2GO! Put 2 riders in each car and voila 90,000 passengers per day! And I’m sure Musk would throw in a few 100 superchargers for the $4 billion.
https://3.tesla.com/en_CA/model3/design?#payment. Pricing doesn’t include yellow Via logo!
https://www.viarail.ca/en/about-via-...ng-growth-2017