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  1. Re:This simply means we're succeeding. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Have Become Top Carbon Polluters (technologyreview.com)

    "Hard to get much further east than Montreal as train service is discontinued"

    WTF are you smoking? Halifax in Nova Scotia is ~700 due east of Montreal - TWICE as far east from Montreal than Toronto is west and you've been able to get there by train since 1876, for fuck's sake.

    http://www.viarail.ca/en/explo...

  2. Via Rail isn't a communter service! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on Choose a Better Train With Web Scraping (hackaday.com)

    Seriously?

    1. It's commuter, not communter.

    2. Via Rail is the national train service of Canada (similar to Amtrak in the USA).

    http://www.viarail.ca/

  3. Yawn. by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1 · on German Railways To Get WLAN RailNet

    Wireless Internet access has been available on VIA Rail in Canada since the end of 2003.

  4. Re:Nice by The+Hobo · · Score: 4, Informative · on German Railways To Get WLAN RailNet

    It is available, at least in the Toronto-Montreal corridor. Only on VIA1 (first class) though.

  5. Re:Via or VIA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Via Will Join The 64-Bit Fray

    VIA Rail never say what it means either. Anyway, the Taiwan semiconductor company stole the rail company's logo and got away with it!

  6. Canada ViaRail access by strudeau · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Wi-Fi by Rail, Bus or Boat
    A Canadian company, PointShot Wireless, is providing Internet service for trials on two rail lines in Northern California and another in Canada. So far, the PointShot tests, like the Washington State ferry project, are free ...
    I'm planning a September trip via rail (pun!) in September. It looks like the free wifi is only available to passengers in the Via-1 (i.e., first class) cars, which I'm too cheap to pay for (especially when a "Comfort" class (i.e., coach) CorridorPass is almost 1/3 the price). Anyone know if you can pick up a signal if you're close enough to a "first class" car? =)
  7. Canada ViaRail access by strudeau · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Wi-Fi by Rail, Bus or Boat
    A Canadian company, PointShot Wireless, is providing Internet service for trials on two rail lines in Northern California and another in Canada. So far, the PointShot tests, like the Washington State ferry project, are free ...
    I'm planning a September trip via rail (pun!) in September. It looks like the free wifi is only available to passengers in the Via-1 (i.e., first class) cars, which I'm too cheap to pay for (especially when a "Comfort" class (i.e., coach) CorridorPass is almost 1/3 the price). Anyone know if you can pick up a signal if you're close enough to a "first class" car? =)
  8. Yawn. by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 2, Informative · on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity

    Old hat. VIA Rail Canada has been offering wireless for almost a year...

  9. They're not the first. by Sandman1971 · · Score: 3, Interesting · on UK Trains Take WiFi Route To Connectivity

    This isn't news. Via Rails here in Canada has been offering wi-fi on Via 1 trains on the Montréal-Toronto or Montréal-Québec City routes here for months on a trial basis.

  10. Re:High speed trains by feelafel · · Score: 1 · on How Will We Get Around Near-Future Earth?

    That's a really good question. Here in Canada, VIA Rail was testing some Bombardier Jet Trains for use on the Quebec-Windsor corridor, but that was a bit more than a year ago now, and there's been no news.

    I wonder if the costs of upgrading the infrastructure proved to be too much of a barrier, as compared to the cost of buying some discount Air Canada MD-80s and setting up shuttle service.

  11. Re:Trains are obsolete by pipingguy · · Score: 1 · on Money Problems May Derail First U.S. MagLev Train

    planes are still more popular and don't take up real estate on the ground. Trains, planes, and automobiles...the first of the bunch is just dropping out of the equation here in America.

    Because everyone wants everything NOW! Train travel is a great alternative to flying (for reasonable distances). Work on the way while relaxed and maybe even Wi-Fi while travelling.

    I suggest that "Air Rage" is a sometimes problem because some Americans just can't deal with people different from them in close proximity (not to mention the "not in control" feeling that an automobile eliminates).

  12. North America Rail Pass by CComMack · · Score: 1 · on Japanese Train Sets A Speed Record Of 581 kph

    There is a similar pass offered by Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada that allows (nearly) unlimited rail travel in both countries for a month.

  13. VIA Already has this by yani · · Score: 5, Informative · on First UK On-Train WiFi Service Launches Monday
    VIA (the national train service in Canada) already has this on thier first class cars, see here.

    I've seen one go by while I was at the train station on day waiting for the commuter train but it was going by a bit too quickly for me to try to grab a connection with my axim x3i :P