{"id":3469,"date":"2018-04-03T15:49:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=c5016206564a28d2d22afd41d8bdd728"},"modified":"2018-04-03T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T19:49:28","slug":"bombardier-plant-gets-54-million-via-contract-to-upgrade-17-train-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/bombardier-plant-gets-54-million-via-contract-to-upgrade-17-train-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombardier plant gets $54-million Via contract to upgrade 17 train cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA POCATIERE, Que. &#8212; Bombardier Transportation&#8217;s plant northeast of Quebec City has obtained a $54-million contract from Via Rail to upgrade 17 train cars that date back to the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau and Via CEO Yves Desjardins-Siciliano made the announcement this afternoon in La Pocatiere, about 150 kilometres from Quebec City.<\/p>\n<p>Via says the contract will allow for the stainless steel cars to become fully accessible.<\/p>\n<p>Each reconfigured car will be equipped with two wheelchair lifts; two accessible spaces with anchoring devices; announcement display screens; and an accessible washroom.<\/p>\n<p>The program is scheduled to be completed in 2020 and the renovated cars will be deployed over Via&#8217;s long-haul routes.<\/p>\n<p>The La Pocatiere plant has about 600 workers.<\/p>\n<p>Companies in this story: (TSX:BBD.B)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA POCATIERE, Que. &mdash; Bombardier Transportation&rsquo;s plant northeast of Quebec City has obtained a $54-million contract from Via Rail to upgrade 17 train cars that date back to the 1950s. Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau and Via CEO Yves Desjardins-Siciliano made the announcement this afternoon in La Pocatiere, about 150 kilometres from Quebec City. Via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}