It's hard for disaffected Calgarians to get outta town...
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By the late 1980s, inflation and other rising costs were taking their toll on federal budgets and in the Mulroney government's 1989 budget, Via again saw its budget slashed... by 55%.
The shift to the less-populated (and less scenic) route between Toronto and Vancouver
severed major western cities such as Regina and Calgary from the passenger rail network ...
The official justification for the rerouting was that the trains would serve more remote communities, but the concentration of Conservative-held ridings along the CN route attracted the charge that the move was chiefly political.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIA_Rail