We deserve better trains
09.03.2026 11:32
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We deserve better trains
What if Trump crippling regional airlines in the US is the push thru finally need to get a modern rail system?
Well into my eighth hour on this @viarailcanada.bsky.social train (which is outside Markham and not moving) from Ottawa to Toronto and wondering if we might be able to get regular-speed rail in this country.
It will never not be upsetting to me that New Brunswick had better intercity public transportation half a century ago than today. Our leaders should be ashamed & mortified.
Women don't care about the Cybertruck.
Women only want one thing; and it's a 1941 North Shore Electroliner by Saint Louis Car Company.
Can’t wait to find out how many high speed rail projects will be funded out of today’s budget bill that includes “generational investments” in federal infrastructure! 🤡
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Public transport investment usually has a return on investment of 4:1 (for every £1 invested, the economy grows by £4), but done well it can do even better than that
Great example here
“This a story about an enjoyable train journey... And a testament to just how good train travel can be, even in a country that has done everything possible to cripple it.”
Big oof
youtu.be/c2MGauUIUNc?...
TRAINS
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
It used to be that you could buy an old clunker & run it into the ground. That model is rapidly disappearing with cars that break more easily with repairs more costly than ever, slowly pushing us towards becoming lifelong leasers.
I am becoming increasingly concerned about the lack of viable public transit paired with astronomical car pricing. Car ownership is the new feudalism, designed to keep us in predatory debt traps as lifelong renters and I am not here for it.
In Canada, many rail networks have been actively demolished. Where people used to be able to take trains to many small towns across the country, we now have “railway pubs” and “railway trails” where stations & tracks **used** to be 😒😒😒
Once more for the people in the back:
📢 train networks are nation-building!!
Instead of pipelines, carney should be focusing on high speed rail networks for people & goods
trains are magic and it’s so embarrassing that the richest country in the history of the world is all “high speed rail? nah we don’t need it”
Btw do you have maps/citations for these routes? I’ve reached out to the NB Railway Museum & NB Museum several times for a map/info about all historic passenger rail routes in NB but nobody ever responds. 😒
It’s not fair!!! Blows my mind how we could possibly have better inter-city AND intra-city public transit a hundred years ago than today!
About a hundred or so years ago, people from Fredericton commuted to Marysville via train to work at the cotton mill, and vice versa. The train took fifteen minutes, from a station near where the Coffee Mill is now, to a station near where the apartments on Brunswick Street back onto the trail.
Screenshot of CBC headline with header image of a metro: “Nova Scotia seeking to study potential of passenger rail in Halifax area Study part of regional transportation plan released earlier this month Posted: August 19, 2025 2:15 PM ADT Last Updated: 3 hours ago Taryn Grant, CBC News”
👀 now do saint john!
Canadians built Air Canada and our airports with decades of public investment. Now we have a privatized airline cutting service, abandoning workers, and pocketing bailouts. If we’re footing the bill anyway, shouldn’t they serve the public—not shareholders?
1 like = 1 passenger rail project idea
1 like = 1 passenger rail project idea
This 1979 #book about #streetcars in #SaintJohn includes an account of the 1914 #strike. Illustrated with #B&W #photos. $25. #Booksky #LocalHistory #SocialHistory #NewBrunswick #labour #transit #transportation
I think it's very cool that the Ocean has been running for this long.
It's great that the station has been refurbished.
Now. About the frequency and reliability issues that plague it.
globalnews.ca/video/112888...
Cartoon of road jammed with cars between single detached homes in suburban, car-dependent sprawl.
Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?
Never forget what they took from us
I literally cannot emphasize enough how much a high-speed and high-density train system would improve everyone’s quality of life in this country.
Can you imagine if Canada’s small towns had train service like this? Hop on for a little day trip and hike, catch the train back at sunset.
We could have this if we invested in rail.
