{"id":6953,"date":"2017-10-12T08:18:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=6953"},"modified":"2017-10-11T23:20:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T03:20:40","slug":"all-aboard-northern-ontario-announces-launch-of-new-citizens-rail-passenger-advocacy-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/12\/all-aboard-northern-ontario-announces-launch-of-new-citizens-rail-passenger-advocacy-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"All Aboard Northern Ontario announces launch of new citizens\u2019 rail passenger advocacy campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>All Aboard Northern Ontario, a new grassroots advocacy group, today launched its campaign for the restoration of the Northlander passenger train and improvements to other rail and intercity bus services across Northeastern Ontario.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe time for a determined and well-researched campaign to revive the Northlander is now,\u201d says \u00c9ric Boutilier, founder of All Aboard Northern Ontario.\u00a0 \u201cAfter more than two years of working with other groups to bring this about, it has become apparent that polite meetings with the very politicians and bureaucrats who cancelled the Northlander in 2012 result in nothing.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMeanwhile, the provincial promise to improve intercity bus service in lieu of reinstating the Northlander has produced a reduction in the frequency of those very buses and endless additional studies by Queen\u2019s Park.\u00a0 This madness needs to stop if Northern Ontarians \u2013 especially seniors, students and medical patients \u2013 are not to become even more isolated than they are now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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All Aboard Northern Ontario will be increasing its push for equitable investments in public transportation through the professional development and public presentation of a restoration plan for the Northlander. \u00a0Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act have already produced data that throws into question the wisdom of the train\u2019s abandonment by the McGuinty government.<\/p>\n

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Says Boutilier, \u201cThe way forward is the one now being pursued by the All Aboard St. Marys citizens\u2019 committee in Southwestern Ontario.\u00a0 That group has made the future of their region\u2019s rail passenger service a major issue with the public, the media and politicians of all stripes.\u00a0 If there is to be any progress in Northern Ontario, that\u2019s the route to go \u2013 and that is the route All Aboard Northern Ontario is going.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the weeks ahead, All Aboard Northern Ontario will release its data-based proposal for the restoration of the Northlander.\u00a0 The group will also be investigating and reporting on other northern transportation issues, such as the dismal performance of VIA Rail\u2019s Canadian, which is leaving Ontarians from Sudbury to the Manitoba border in the lurch.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe time for action is now,\u201d says Boutilier.\u00a0 \u201cWith a provincial election on the horizon, the issue of the Northlander needs to be placed before the public and the candidates of all political parties.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAction also needs to be taken on the inadequate service provided by VIA, which is deteriorating rapidly.\u00a0 We intend to put these and other public transportation issues before the public and our elected officials before the isolation now being experienced by Northern Ontarians grows any worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

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All Aboard Northern Ontario has today launched its website and social media pages.\u00a0 The website may be accessed at https:\/\/allaboardnorthernontario.com\/<\/p>\n

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The public, the media, and politicians are invited to review the data on the Northlander and the state of the region’s precarious transportation network. \u00a0Northerners are also encouraged to share their story of how the cancellation of the Northlander has affected them personally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oct 12, 2017 @ 08:18 All Aboard Northern Ontario, a new grassroots advocacy group, today launched its campaign for the restoration of the Northlander passenger train and improvements to other rail and intercity bus services across Northeastern Ontario.   \u201cThe time for a determined and well-researched campaign to revive the Northlander is now,\u201d says \u00c9ric …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[874],"class_list":["post-6953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-all-aboard-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 04:04:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6955,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions\/6955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}