This Train Just Keeps Getting Worse 😢 (VIA Rail "The Ocean")

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  @NotJustBikes · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

  ** IMPORTANT **<br>Noki Travels, channel of the VIA Rail employee that I featured in this video, had his channel hacked. He was unable to recover it. :(<br>Check out his new channel here:<br><a href="https://youtube.com/@nokitravels?si=2sSWiYhO7a4BY_Lh">https://youtube.com/@nokitravels?si=2sSWiYhO7a4BY_Lh</a><br><br>And his video about this VIA Rail train here:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-L372kI_hw">https://youtu.be/E-L372kI_hw</a><br><br><br><br>/// [ previous pinned comment below ]<br><br>Check out the rest of my (failed?) public transit journey on Nebula:<br><a href="https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-i-tried-to-take-the-bus-to-the-beach-and-failed">https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-i-tried-to-take-the-bus-to-the-beach-and-failed</a><br><br>I really want to take public transit more often in Canada, but they don&apos;t make it easy. 😩<br><br>Watch this video ad-free and sponsor-free on Nebula:<br><a href="https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-this-train-just-keeps-getting-worse">https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-this-train-just-keeps-getting-worse</a><br><br>Not a Nebula subscriber? Sign up now for $36 and support this channel in the process!<br><a href="https://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes">https://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes</a><br><br>Don&apos;t have a credit card? Buy yourself a one-year Nebula &quot;gift card&quot; with iDEAL!<br><a href="https://gift.nebula.tv/notjustbikes">https://gift.nebula.tv/notjustbikes</a><br><br>Want to support this channel (and maybe help me get on &quot;The Canadian&quot;)? Check out my Patreon!<br><a href="https://patreon.com/notjustbikes">https://patreon.com/notjustbikes</a>

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  @marcgauthier6894 · 1 year ago

  “Car culture did more to destroy Halifax than the explosion did.”<br><br>Preach.

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  @nWestie · 1 year ago

  The insane dichotomy between &quot;this rail line is being cut to save $6 million&quot; and &quot;we&apos;re spending $5 million to update this one highway intersection&quot; continues to piss me TF off. The numbers aren&apos;t exact, but how long will it take people to realize how cheap transit actually is?

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  @jbassguy571 · 1 year ago

  What is truly sad and ironic is that Canada was literally created by train, and the construction of the Canadian Pacific railway was one of the miracles of human effort and nation-building in all of history. And we let it all go to shit.

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  @aaronwilkinson8963 · 1 year ago

  1950s and 60s futuristic vision did not anticipate the Shitification of everything

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  @kevinbarry71 · 1 year ago

  speaking as an American; it&apos;s nice to know we&apos;re not the only one screwing these things up

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  @vaikkajoku · 1 year ago

  Passports and luggage limitations for a train is just so baffling.

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  @Sadwaffles · 1 year ago

  Youll be happy to know, for some reason the goverment spent 14 million on restoring the halifax train station but couldnt put a dime into the service. I was actually one of the people to restore it

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  @SAMUSUMA · 1 year ago

  North America try not to completely fail at intercity rail challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

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  @TT-jp7kh · 1 year ago

  Kind of off-topic, but watching this took me back to January 1986 when I took a temporary position in Toronto from my company in the US. A dozen or so of my co-workers flew from Seattle to TO, but my wife and I elected to be dropped off in Vancouver and take ViaRail. It was cheaper than flying, and we took 17 suitcases/boxes at no additional charge (vs 4 suitcases authorized by our company on the plane). What an amazing trip! Spotting wolves tracking a deer in the snow-heavy Rockies.Walking to a nearby pizza place recommended by the train staff during a layover in Calgary. Taking a taxi to Manitoba&apos;s capital building in Winnipeg--it was closed, but the night guard let us in and turned on the lights, illuminating the great hall with its two huge buffalo statues. Stepping outside to a bitter cold Moose Jaw night to watch the crew knock off huge blocks of ice that had accumulated on our wheels. Wonderful staff. Comfortable sleeping room. Sharing meals with other travelers in the small dining car. 40 years ago, but it&apos;s still one of my best travel memories. Sorry to go on so long.<br>Not Just Bikes--l love your channel!

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  @obsolete959 · 1 year ago

  As a finn, luggage restrictions, check-in luggage and queuing at the train station seem absolutely surreal to me. Not a single one of the busy European train stations could stay operational for even a day like that.

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  @Nickxis · 1 year ago

  Bruh, 3 times a week? My village of 150 people in Czechia gets train every 2 hours

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