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Transport committee It's based on train arrival at destination.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee Yes. It's based on the final stop for the route, on the theory that if you left on time and you arrive on time, hopefully your stops are made as well. It's a bit higher, sir, for the commuter operators such as GO Transit, and AMT in Montreal. And for VIA, we're probably more in the 85% range right now.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee For example, to use the case of VIA, which is our largest passenger customer, they pay us basically a trackage right fee to operate on our railroad, which we negotiate with them. There is a target percentage on-time performance in the contract. If we go above that, they pay us a little bit more money.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee Yes, we do that cooperatively with the--
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee In terms of trip plan, it's a different measure. It's not train arrival; it's arrival of the car at the customer's siding. It's about 92% now. And I know you'll ask, “Well, how could it be higher?” That is based on a car that's picked up at a local yard, switched at an intermediate yard, put on a long-haul train or two, and it has had several switching events, so there is an ability to meet that trip within all of those portions.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee Yes, we would be happy to do that.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee I don't know. I know that Transport Canada, Ontario, and Quebec are updating a study. My suggestion would be that you ladies and gentlemen might want to have a look at that when it's prepared. It's multi-million dollars per month.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee Not that I'm aware of.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee If it's a dedicated right of way, I'm not sure that I'd see our having any flesh in that game. As for flesh in the game, overall, in freight railroading ours is about $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion a year.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee That would be a decision for you ladies and gentlemen to make. You have a capable, experienced passenger operator in VIA Rail Canada.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee Yes, if there were private companies that wanted to entertain it, they should probably be afforded the opportunity.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee The nub of your question, of course, is all about trip time and what trip time you can accommodate. Whether it's at 70 miles per hour through that territory is probably less important than what the total trip time is from Toronto to Montreal. We would certainly work very closely with whoever the passenger operator was to try to find a way to get them in there, commensurate with the needs of the schedule.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee Generally not; the corridor out in the countryside is typically 90 feet to 100 feet wide. Depending on the height of the embankment, there's pretty much a two-to-one side slope on the embankment. It's easily 50 feet or 60 feet up, in some cases probably 70 feet, of that 90 feet to 100 feet.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee There are three sections, all west of Brockville. The Brockville to Toronto section has both the Toronto-Ottawa trains and Toronto-Montreal trains. It's three sections in total, and I believe it's a total length of 42 miles.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller
Transport committee I wouldn't want to say “locked in”, but it's not built, and it could not be built, with the idea of running a lot faster than you are on a track that's a 15-foot track centre away. It's being built to the same standard as the Kingston subdivision.
November 16th, 2009Committee meeting
Paul Miller