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Many questions surround rail line

Your page 9 article about train service beginning “soon” is truly pie in the sky daydreaming.

Your page 9 article about train service beginning “soon” is truly pie in the sky daydreaming.

Item one, who has produced an estimated, cost and time duration of repairing the track from Victoria to Courtenay?

What plans are in place for modern units to run on this future system? This system has all its life been run with second hand museum-category equipment; to say it was shoddy is giving it value.

Further to the future track arrangement, it does need to be twinned for a certain distance, in order for two units to work at the same time.

Has this ever been mentioned as a possibility to enable it to run as often as possible?

The mumbling about not having enough customers to give it credence is a red herring.

One other question, who, if anyone, is drawing a stipend out of what funds there are at this time and why?

Well editor, it becomes more curious and more curiouser the longer it is dead...

 

George Manners

Cowichan Bay