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this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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Northern Canada is disproportionately rural and generally less developed than southern Canada, and in general it’s harder to connect rural communities to the rest of Canada because it’s such a big country so there’s a lot of distance you need to cover. I think ValueSubtracted is basically saying, it’s nice we have these buses to major population centres in the south, but what we really need is buses like this to connect rural and northern communities.
Couldnt trains also do the trick? Would be a lot faster than buses to travel hehe
We do have trains connecting the country, including to some northern communities. But where there is no train service it helps to supplement with buses. Unfortunately most of our passenger trains use the same rail lines as our cargo trains, which causes a lot of delays, so it's not as fast as you might think. But our current government will fix that issue somewhat by creating high-speed rail in our most populous area