Via Rail has offered $31 million in travel vouchers to hundreds of thousands of passengers whose trains were more than one hour late since last fall, mostly as a result of new speed limits at rail crossings on CN tracks.

Travel vouchers worth 50 per cent of fares are offered to passengers whenever a train is delayed by more than an hour on the Quebec City-Windsor corridor, the busiest stretch in Via's system. The value goes up to 100 per cent when the delay exceeds four hours.

The $31-million figure is equivalent to seven per cent of the Crown corporation's total revenues in 2024, illustrating the extent of the problems experienced by passengers who have suffered record delays since the start of a conflict with CN during last year's Thanksgiving weekend.

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