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Originally Posted by ponyboycurtis
I've said this before..
I just dumped 5k on a whim for myself to go around Europe and meet a friend and screw around for a couple weeks. And that is me on a budget so to speak.
I'm not going to balk at the cost of an Uber coming back to Ottawa man. Jesus.
Last go around.. I went from Prague to Vilnius.. stayed for one last night because we planned poorly to start.. and then Vilnius/Warsaw/Toronto/Ottawa.
I've been in transit for like 48 hours at this point. Take that train and cram it.
Coming back from Thailand is like 30/36 hours door to door.
Ottawa just isn't a big enough and congested city for an Airport link that goes nowhere and then needs yet another connection.
UPX in Toronto worth every penny... Airport link in Bangkok worth every penny.. Line 4 is redundant at best, being a spur.
Trying to think of what other cities I used transit out of the airport. Being that I have to cross PLANET dividing oceans to go anywhere I am interested in, at that point I usually just want to hire a car unless the roads are congested beyond belief... aka Bangkok.
Rail link to Frankfurt from city center was good.
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Oslo had a great rail link, and the city isn't much different in size from Ottawa. Difference being Oslo being the principle city of Norway, without the competition from neighbouring Montreal and Toronto.
If you are going to build a rail link, build it well, and make it convenient. We did not.
Under the circumstances, we would have been better off with an express bus to downtown hotels. We had that and a Transitway for half the distance. All we needed was buses designed for the service with space for luggage. And it would have cost a whole lot less and without being an anchor on Ottawa taxpayers and OC Transpo that Line 4 was inevitably going to be.
UPX works great, 25 minutes from Pearson to downtown. I have used it. If I had to take bus to subway to another subway, as it was before, forget it or pay for an express bus downtown.
Why does Ottawa screw it all up. Regarding ridership, what percentage are airport workers? We know that Route 105 came about as result of the airport authority and complaints from airport workers. This says it all, when we had to bring back a bus.