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Req # 22-2221
Are you able to share the number of travel complaints regarding internet/Wi-Fi on your trains. I would also like to have the data for each year from 2017 to 2021. I was also reading an article published in the 24 heures newspaper in 2019 that VIA Rail was planning to do a Wi-Fi upgrade in all of its cars in 2020. Has this upgrade been completed? And what does it consist of.Organization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
August 2022
Req # 21-2134
Obtain the number of passengers at each station between 2014 and 2021 on the routes between Washago - Rice Lake and Sudbury – White River; and obtain the on-time performance of the Washago – Rice Lake ad Sudbury – White River routes between 2014 and 2021Organization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
February 2022
Req # 21-2131
Passenger load factor (percentage of seat files (i.e. number of tickets sold divided by the total number of tickets/capacity available)), within the Corridor, from 2015 – 2021; Passenger load factor within the Corridor for the year 2021, detailed by month; Appendices I-A, I-B and II of the TSA between VIA Rail and CN; Revenue by origin-destination pair for all stations within the following two (2) routes: Toronto – Sarnia and Toronto-Windsor, from 2015 – 2021; Average delay for trains within the following two (2) routes: Toronto-Sarnia and Toronto – Windsor, from 2015 – 2021; The maximum number of VIA Rail trains that are ‘allowed’ to be operated within the following two (2) routes: Toronto – Sarnia and Toronto – Windsor; If there are any timeframes where VIA Rail trains are not ‘allowed’ to be operated on the two (2) aforementioned routes and if so, what are those timeframes.Organization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
February 2022
Req # 21-2132
1. Travel speed, horn (train whistle) volume and horn pattern of VIA trains as they approach, pass through and leave the municipal boarders of the Town of Tecumseh, including rail crossings [Banwell Rd., Lesperance Rd., Tecumseh Rd. E., Manning Rd./County Road 19 and County Road 21]; 2. Any changes to the above over the past 10 years; 3. Any changes to the above planned over the next 3 years, including changes resulting from grade crossing improvements; and 4. Any communications with the Town of Tecumseh discussing changes in #3 aboveOrganization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
February 2022
Req # 21-2137
Obtain a copy of the forthcoming revised response to the information request referred to in VIA Rail Canada Inc. (Re) 2020 OIC 15, 2020-12-14 OIC File number 3217-00399, Institution File: 16-1656Organization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
February 2022
Req # 21-2112
Je cherche à confirmer quel corridor ferroviaire sera utilisé pour le TGF entre les gares d'Ottawa, de Fallowfield et de Smith Falls (...). Veuillez confirmer si le TGF utilisera effectivement les corridors ferroviaires notés en orange sur la carte ci-jointe et veuillez confirmer qu'il s'agit bien du corridor ferroviaire de Smith Falls qui relie la gare d'Ottawa et la ville de Smith Falls.Organization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
August 2021
Req # 20-2040
The data we are requesting on VIA Rail’s stations and the routes on which VIA Rail provides services (…) provide the following information: Railway station code, English name, French name, street address, city, province, postal code, station level, station type, longitude, latitude, active indicator. For each route: start and end station, railway stop over indicator and active indicator.Organization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
February 2021
Req # 19-1983
All records generated or reviewed by communications or media relations staff in response to questions from Global News between January 25, 2020 and the date VIA Rail begins processing this request regarding or related to security issues on trains, delays on trains and plans for High Frequency Rail.Organization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
August 2020
Req # 20-2008
I would like to obtain the correspondences of the former President & CEO of VIA Rail, Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, with Siemens between December 2016 and his departure from VIA Rail. I also wish to obtain a copy of the contract between VIA Rail and Siemens for the replacement of the Quebec-Windsor fleet.Organization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
August 2020
Req # 20-2013
Validate the amounts of commissions paid to [name protected] and the payment date of those commissions. Thank you for validating the amounts and indicating whether the commissions related to the file number have been paid and the amounts paid.Organization: VIA Rail Canada Inc.
August 2020