By Sarah Pledge Dickson, The Globe And Mail; July 2, 2019
Fed-up with school and living in a dorm room that didn’t have windows that opened, I went online, looking for something to get me far away from here. I purchased a train ticket on a whim. It was the Canada150 promotion – unlimited train travel for the month of July for just $150.
Two days later, the Via Rail website was shut down due to the overwhelming number of people trying to buy the same ticket. Via had failed to realized that the reason young people weren’t taking the train had nothing to do with young people not liking the train. It instead had everything to do with the fact that travel is expensive.