VIA Rail, Canada’s national passenger rail service, doesn’t post their ridership data publicly on their website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a citizen, though, we are entitled to know how many people board at each station. I filed a Freedom of Information request, and in a matter of months, received the data. Forgive the odd timespan, it was an off the cuff request and I’m really not putting a lot of time and effort into this. You should file an FOI request if you really want more than this. and VIA should make a habit of posting this all publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why did I do this? In an attempt to convince one of my favourite Youtubers, Miles in Transit<\/a>, to come to Canada. He regularly goes to the least used Amtrak stations in different states, but there was no way for him to know which stations in Canada were least-used. Now he knows. I e-mailed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n