Putting Passenger Rail Back on Track: A Multiple Streams Framework Analysis of High-Frequency Rail Policy in Canada

Matthew Boulden and Daniel Beland

Canadian Public Policy, 2022, vol. 48, issue 3, 374-385

Abstract: After decades of policy stagnation, change is on the horizon for passenger rail in Canada, with the recent federal government's approval of VIA Rail's High-Frequency Rail (HFR) proposal within the Quebec-Windsor Corridor. This study applies the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to analyze how HFR arrived on the federal government's agenda. Drawing on semi-directive interviews, three expectations based on the MSF are confirmed: evidence of (a) activity in the framework's three streams (problem, policy, politics); (b) a policy window opening because of changes in the politics stream; and (c) a policy entrepreneur who coupled the three streams within that policy window.

Keywords: transportation policy; high-frequency rail; VIA Rail; Canada; agenda setting; Multiple Streams Framework; policy window; policy entrepreneur (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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