Opinion By Sharon Kurtz, Revelstoke Review; March 6, 2018
Can Revelstoke ever really be a world-class resort town without reliable, affordable transportation? The answer is no. The solution is simple. Revelstoke needs daily passenger trains coming here from the east and the west: Vancouver and Calgary.
Not that many years ago, The Canadian, Via Rail’s signature train, puffed regularly into town. For some reason in the early nineties, The Canadian was rerouted away from its previous and obvious Calgary to Vancouver route and sent north at Kamloops to Jasper and Edmonton. No one would drive such a convoluted route to get from Vancouver to Calgary.
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