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2025 Stantec and Modus Island Corridor Report Released!

Highlights!

The Public has Spoken!


Report shows that 79% of people feel the Vancouver Island Rail Corridor should remain rail and 49% want trail's alongside it too.  

It shows enough ridership potential based on todays population to fill 13 trains running at 15-22 minute headways during peak times and commuting directions as well (22 by 2041).  

It also shows that leveraging the BC Government's transit oriented development scheme around stations, 74,000 more homes could be created over status quo.

One point I really liked was where it stated that new stations do not need to be located where the heritage stations currently are; that they might be better located elsewhere due to past development patterns. 


Click the image to read the report

Stantec and Modus Island Corridor Report Released

Vancouver Island has the population for it

80% of Vancouver Island's population lives along the Island railway.

Hopefully you can see that if everyone in the Vancouver Island region used it just once, we would have a ridership of over 957,757. That's just once!  The latest 2025 report from Stantec shows demand that could fill 13 three car trains with ridership rising from 1.73 million after inception to over 4 million in less than 20 years.


Sign the petition to support Restoring Island Rail, because once it's gone it's gone for good, and so is our chance of having inter-city and inner-city rail on the island in the future.

The potential for revenue is real

Dec 2022 Freight Assessment

The B.C. Government released a Freight assessment conducted with Vancouver Island and Vancouver businesses. Benefits for both Vancouver Island and Vancouver were found!

 

Read the Freight report here:

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/driving-and-transportation/reports-and-reference/reports-and-studies/vancouver-island-south-coast/island-rail-corridor/island-rail-corridor-freight-analysis-appendix-d-2022-12-05.pdf


Key points are:

 Primary Study Findings 

   • There are many opportunities for freight rail traffic on Vancouver Island that could be  realized with significantly less investment than previous studies have identified.  


   • These opportunities would shift many truck  trips to rail, both on Vancouver Island and in  the Lower Mainland, providing a range of benefits. • Developing a rail connection to Duke Point  would provide synergetic benefits for the  area and the Island Rail Corridor. 


   • Stakeholders agreed that maintaining the  Island Rail Corridor is important to the  overall resiliency of the Island, given its  limited highway network 

Nanaimo Airport CEO wants rail

NANAIMO AIRPORT ON VANCOUVER ISLAND IS SERVICEABLE BY RAIL!

Imagine getting to the airport by train and leaving all the car-worries behind when you travel. I just came back from Toronto by air and had the pleasure of using the UP Express Train that brings you from Union Station to the Toronto International Airport.  It was bliss! But we on Vancouver Island are missing this experience.

In a council meeting 8th Oct 2024, Dave Devana, President and CEO of the Nanaimo Airport, presented to the RDN the very real fact that the Airport could reduce parking and better enable access to the airport should rail return to Vancouver Island.  

The business case just keeps getting better and better with time.  It's also the least expensive time to restore and improve it. 


Freight Opportunity Explainer Video

Freighters are restricted in the Georgia Strait to 2 weeks or they have to be redirected elsewhere, like Port Alberni. And now they are moving to charge a transit fee to freighters moving through Juan-de-Fuca as well. 


Meanwhile we have a railway that connects Port Alberni and Nanaimo where, at Wellcox yard, Seaspan Rail Ferry and Barge terminal already brings propane and other commodities to the island and in the Freight analysis they recommended an extension out to Duke point.  

A simple solution for Vancouver Island

The Railway is there and already touches most cities and towns

It is as simple as it gets!  This mockup of stops was created with the help of hundreds of people talking to me about their experiences on the Dayliner, a 56 year old Budd Car Train that used to run a tourist attraction running opposite to commuting needs until 2011 when it was shut down due to track conditions.


There are over 180,000 more people living on Vancouver Island since the passenger services shut down, they could hold hands along the entire 289km of rail.

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Island Corridor Foundation Business Case

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Invest for tomorrow and today

Investing in our kid's tomorrow, but today!

Imagine an intercity

right of passage train that

gets you to work, school, or appointments on time, and

home for dinner!


Could it get your kids and you

to sports and leisure facilities

up and down the island

Safely!

inexpensively!

independently? 

only $200 per month

fully integrated with

other transit systems!


Family passes

check

Seniors passes

check

Disabled passes

Check


It's like another road,

but called rail!

Climate Action

We can't keep procrastinating on Climate action.


Establishing Rapid Transit is 

Climate Action!

 by getting

older polluting cars off the road


and creates the opportunity for

High Impact Electrification

for even

More Climate Action!


To make the BEST use of this

 Vancouver Island Treasure

and take some real climate action!

Connect Communities

Inflation is out of control!

Protect the 289km, pre-graded, 

Vancouver Island Rail Corridor!


Create inexpensive access to cheaper living areas for struggling Vancouver Islander's, create the potential for high-impact electrification and the prevention of environmental damage in the future by preventing the need to create new or expanded highways due to population growth.

Inflation is out of control!

Inflation is out of control!

And everyone has felt it!


Your paycheck doesn't go as far

so you take fewer Sunday Drives,

buy less food,

forgo the car repairs,

socialize less!

buy less


Business costs are rising

sales are slow

so retail prices get raised

Life costs more...

Your paycheck doesn't go as far


And round and round we go!


I have no team, it's just me.

but lots of other

dedicated Vancouver Islanders

that saw the site started sharing information with me, that I would have never known otherwise!


I've been on the receiving end of all my Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, email, text's, and polls.


If I round the ratio of 

Happy to Angry

to the nearest whole Person,

Happy sentiment 

wins by a landslide


Everyone easily sees what the Vancouver Island Rail Corridor Represents


I think our leaders do too

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FORBES: Rail is making a global comeback

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BETTER FOR THE VULNERABLE

BETTER FOR THE VULNERABLE

BETTER FOR THE VULNERABLE

BENEFITS FOR OUR VULNERABLE

BETTER FOR OUR ELDERS

BETTER FOR THE VULNERABLE

BETTER FOR THE VULNERABLE

ELDERLY PLUS BENEFITS

BETTER FOR OUR YOUTH!

BETTER FOR THE VULNERABLE

BETTER FOR BUSINESS UP AND DOWN THE ISLAND

YOUTH BENEFITS

BETTER FOR BUSINESS UP AND DOWN THE ISLAND

BETTER FOR OUR EVERYONE, HOW OFTEN DOES THAT HAPPEN?

BETTER FOR BUSINESS UP AND DOWN THE ISLAND

BUSINESSES AND CONVENIENCES

BETTER FOR OUR EVERYONE, HOW OFTEN DOES THAT HAPPEN?

BETTER FOR OUR EVERYONE, HOW OFTEN DOES THAT HAPPEN?

BETTER FOR OUR EVERYONE, HOW OFTEN DOES THAT HAPPEN?

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

History that needs preserving

Built by our Ancestors

Incorporated on September 27, 1883, the construction of the Vancouver Island Rail Corridor is not without controversy, but the one thing we can all agree on is that Vancouver Island ancestors, from many many cultural backgrounds shed blood, sweat and tears to build it!  Laying 289km of level track up and down a rocky island during that time is no feat that should go unrecognized for the amazing achievement that it is! 


It should not be left to languish when it is needed more and more every passing year.


Honour their sacrifices!  Update the history books, and provide access for prosperity along the route. 


Once it's gone, it's gone!

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Warren Skaalrud "Born and Raised" Islander

Shawnigan Lake, Canada, Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia V0R 2W1, Canada

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