This week a Beastly BC Transit bus ended up going sideways on Highway 3A north of Nelsonia and blocked the busy road after it spun out due to snowy icy conditions, and it was a miracle that no-one was hurt. Looking at the picture in the online paper, you’ll see that the cold dangerous lake was right nearby the bus’ eventual resting place with no guardrails, and it was very possible that the public transport vehicle could have ended up in the hypothermic drink.

Meanwhile, the Shitty Council of the White Heritage City is about to raise the parking rates in town up to 60% and there seems to be an unlikely consensus among staff, councillors & the Chamber of Consumerism that the current parking system leaves a lot to be desired without much of an optimistic outlook for how to improve a situation in which negligent Nelsonia is trying to put ten pounds of crap into a five-pound bag, as per usual. There’s one obvious solution to both these problems among others that has been talked about before by the late Kootenay Expresso, etc., but it’s amazing how often people like Wormtongue at the Crypt of Commercialism don’t bring up the glaringly simple answer, even when his Chamber of Republicanazi-worship lies in the very building where a passenger train service could transport so many commuters and visitors in a way that’s much safer and more practical than unwieldy buses on wintery roadways and crammed parking stalls downtown.

At a time when the Thomson Twin is bemoaning the downward frail state of the local economy without offering tangible solutions, while betraying his own lack of ability to do anything positive other than point out the ominously obvious dire straits of our cannabis-free financial debacle, it’s become more and more apparent that we should duplicate the experience that our grandmothers had back in the regressive twentieth century and reinstall a passenger train system to a mountain-bound lakeside city that needs way more commuting options and far less cars in its downtown core. When duplicitous Wormtongue Tom is talking about everything wrong with the Queen Consort City’s isolated tourist-trap dependent business environment which is reeling from planetary forces that don’t look like they’ll get better anytime soon, how can he not look outside his cushy office paid for by the public dime and not realize that he and his business bozo pals need to advocate loud and strong for an ecologically friendly transportation mode on preexisting tracks that can stimulate the economic freefall, provide local jobs, reduce parking demands, make exurb housing available to all the workers who can’t afford to live where they work & reduce the dangerous impacts of our crude reliance on personal fossil-fuel burning driving?

The main problem facing a return of public passenger trains to this beleaguered area is the sad fact that the Nelsonia Police State, Shitty Hall, the Dark Star, the Kooky Mountain Cult & the Crypt of Commercialism are all in cahoots with the unCanadian nonPacific Kansas City Railway that rules the roost around these parts when it comes to deciding who gets to ride on the rails that were once beneficial to the interests of the Canamerican public taxpayers. Readers of previous Golden Heron columns know all the dastardly ways in which the CPKCR controls all of these local entities to varying degrees that either pay rent or allegiance to the antisocial psychopathic tendencies of Corporal Creel’s federally unaccountable keystone cops who persecute the poor unhoused vulnerable folks among us. When unCanadian nonPacific refuses to clean up its corroded mess on the waterfront, or inform us citizens about what toxic explosive goods it carries right by our houses on a daily basis, or provide any accountability for their freight-train domination of our perfectly serviceable passenger train corridors, the white male powers that shouldn’t be all kowtow to their Manmoron masters, because they selfishly know that representing the people against the patriarchal plutocracy does not benefit their pocketbooks in any way.

If the regional representatives of the billionaire boys club truly cared about their voters, patrons, readers & subjects, etc., they would be defying the CPKCR’s industrial monolith every single day by declaring that one of the best things we could ever do for the Valley of Lost Souls’ poor souls is to bring back the inter-city connections between Vancougar and Cowtown so that our economic isolation, transportation nightmare & car-dependent society, etc., would be much less of a degraded problem. As it is now, a traveller coming to visit or live in Canamerica is shocked to find out that the only way they can get anywhere around this vast colossus of a country is to either buy, rent, ride or borrow a rubber-wheeled private vehicle which needs to be driven on unsanded, unplowed highways in treacherous conditions and landscapes, unless they can afford to fly to an unreliable airport in the middle of nowhere.