GGC call high priority for Feds on the Rail Service Review

[gregpet]

What usefulness did you add by making accusations?

[TOM4CWB]

Mustardman,

Hmmmmm...

Who privatised CN, then sat there and watched these fine RR folks take $300M from grain growers from 2000 to 2007 on rail car maintanance that was never Spent?

THE past Honourable Minister Ralph Goodale.

The Conservatives fixed the problem finally... with court appeals all the way up... and didn't give the RR what they wanted.

"Canadian Transportation Agency Decision No. 67-R-2008 paragraph nine
states:

9.
It is estimated that during the first seven years under the Revenue Cap
Program (i.e. from crop year 2000-2001 to crop year 2006-2007) the
railway companies received more than $550 million for hopper car
maintenance costs while incurring less than $250 million for this
maintenance. Thus, in the period, the railway companies have received at
least $300 million more than they have spent on hopper car maintenance,
and this has been paid by Prairie grain producers. Moreover, the difference between the amount the railway companies receive under the Revenue Cap Program and what they incur as hopper car maintenance costs has been growing at an increasing rate."
All thanks to THE past Honourable Minister Ralph Goodale.

You words are shallow and misdirected Mustardman!!!

[mustardman]

Read my thread -it says Both liberal and conservative governments have been lobbied.

[bucket]

Don't expect anything to change with regards to the railways.

They have been guaranteed to make a profit moving goods across this country for years. They have closed branch lines in favour of stopping the flow of traffic on the main lines. Then with their cost savings and profit the railways are too ****ing stupid to twin the lines from east of winnipeg to west of calgary to speed the process up.

This country could be running a world class rail system instead we get excuses from every level of government and every railway.

If you compare the investment made by farmers,as a whole, to improve their farms to what the railways have spent to improve their service - farmers win hands down.

That would explain why farmers can take a crop off in 45 days and it takes the railways over 300 to move it to the west coast.

But I digress, the federal government of any stripe is not going to pressure the railways to do anything. Jack won't because of the unions. The liberals won't because the boardrooms are stacked with liberals and much the same for the conservatives. It is an incestuous relationship.

[mbratrud]

As a part of CWB reform why would the
board not look at creating a
transportation brokering service, that
would continue to handle transportation
issues in the future and continue to
provide logistics service post monopoly.

Its time for the CWB bofd to start
acting responsibly and look at says that
the organization can add value in the
future instead of fighting a loosing
battle with our money.

[sumdumguy]

We need joint running rights enshrined. The
railuways have been granted this elite status to
open the West, they have really taken advantage
of it.

It is truly a pathetic process to try to order a car.
Hours are spent on answering machines and a
password system that would frustrate a saint.

[mbratrud]

SDG I agree we need to open up the running rights.

[Burbert]

Whoa, the RITZ cracker has been called
upon to doooooooooo somethinnnnnnnnnn, by
a very, very, very, important group of
about a dozen er so Comedian farmers. Boy
he better wake up and smell the roses this
time, causin these guys/gals mean
business, Angribusiness.............

[sumdumguy]

Who should he listen to, the loser directors?

[sumdumguy]

Hey Burbert, can you see your milk cow
sauntering out your yard and down the road?
Pity!

[btjadenlepp]

Mark and SDG, you have hit the nail on the
head, IMO. Rail service must become the
focus of creating a successful grain
economy for the future. Pulse Canada has
spearheaded some great work in the Service
Level Agreements, we have to push the feds
to put that new Transportation bill
through.

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