VIA Rail link between Perth, Smiths Falls could become reality by 2019

VIA Rail link between Perth, Smiths Falls could become reality by 2019

Published on August 31, 2016

A new, electric VIA Rail corridor starting in Peterborough could connect Perth and Smiths Falls.  Perth Mayor John Fenik revealed at the very end of the Tuesday, Aug. 30 council meeting that he had been in talks that very morning with Lt. Cmdr. (retired) Jacques Fauteux, director of government and community relations with the office of Yves Desjardins-Siciliano, the president and CEO of VIA Rail Canada, that very morning...

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