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Originally Posted by Kitchissippi
Using the Nicholas Hostel as an arbitrary destination, The Catherine street station is 2.5 kms on foot (using google maps), the VIA station is 3.6 kms, and the Chaudière location is 3.3 kms. Not much of an advantage putting it on the Quebec side, as the buses would have to contend with delays with bridge traffic and OC Transpo's #8 has dismal frequency off-peak. The train station presently has transit connections going every direction at 5 to 10 minute frequencies, plus future LRT.
The majority of people using Greyhound are not tourists, they are either residents or VFRs (visiting friends and relatives) and staging a drop off/pick up point downtown will just add traffic chaos. This is why dreaming of returning trains to Union Station is such an impractical pipe dream. Ever see the line of taxis outside the VIA station?
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so every major city in the world can do it except for Ottawa.. i see the logic
transit belongs downtown: bus station, train station,
HOWEVER they must have mass transit/public transit access/ connections built in to the site for example the train station at union with a subway or light rail station combined to it (or in our present case good bus transit connections)..... same for a downtown bus location.
but they have to be downtown.. again every city has them downtown and it works for them (no one mentions pick up or drop off as issues in toronto or NYC or Paris or Berlin....why is Ottawa any different.. we have to stop thinking like this it's so frustrating to have a mentality of no we can't do this or no it won't work here.
when will we ever be a city ??????????