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Originally Posted by J.OT13
The Trillium Line is the only potential for a direct airport-downtown service. You extend it to Gatineau, their will never be any political will to re-route to downtown.
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Why do we even need to consider a train to the airport right now? Pearson has 36 million passengers/year, which is 9 times as many as Ottawa, and they are just getting one. The only good thing we have going for our airport is that it's only 6 kms from downtown, compared to Montreal and Toronto being 20+km away.
We could probably offer similar service at a much cheaper fare by offering a special shuttle bus between the airport and key downtown locations (westin, delta etc).
If the O-train tracks get fully doubled in the future then they should consider putting a spur in. The massive amount of parking and plentiful cabs to and from the airport already means demand for a train will be constrained.