VIA Rail reports high holiday ridership

Written by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
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This holiday season, from December 16, 2015, to January 5, 2016, VIA Rail Canada saw its highest passenger revenue in over four years, with an increase of 10.3 percent since 2012 and the busiest day, December 23, had VIA Rail trains transporting 16,377 passengers to their destinations.

 

“The Holidays boast the highest ridership of the year on our trains,” said Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, president and chief executive officer of VIA Rail, “More than 255,000 passengers trusted VIA Rail for travel within Canada during this time. I am grateful for their patronage and for the dedication and professionalism of our front-line and maintenance center employees who were on duty to help ensure that our passengers received great service and got to their destinations safely.”

In the Québec City-Windsor corridor, more than 237,000 passengers travelled on the 1,118 trains serving communities in and between Montréal, Québec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Windsor, London, Sarnia andNiagara Falls. The Montréal-Toronto line was the most popular route: 32,527 traveled between these two points over the period.
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the long distance trains, the Ocean service, which travels between Montréal and Halifax, welcomed almost 8,000 passengers. Six additional departures were offered over the holidays. Meanwhile, the Canadian, which connects Toronto to Vancouver, saw more than 5,100 passengers onboard.
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Rail reports its trains safely transported all passengers to their destinations without any major disruptions.

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