(rshsdepot) VIA Rail

["Bernie Wagenblast" <brwagenblast_@_comcast.net>]

Part of an announcement today from Transport Canada about $692.5 million in
new funding for VIA Rail.


VIA Rail has launched a system-wide program to upgrade passenger stations
and facilities. A two-year $10 million investment in VIA Rail's busiest
facility, Toronto Union Station, is scheduled for completion in the fall of
2003. Other major projects already completed include renovations to stations
in Halifax, Moncton, Quebec City, Kingston, Oshawa, Oakville, Kitchener,
Brantford and Jasper, and new facilities in London, Campbellton and Prince
Rupert. VIA Rail has also opened Barrhaven/Fallowfield station in the
west-end of Ottawa.

You may read the entire release at:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/mediaroom/releases/nat/2003/03-h125e.htm#bg1

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