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Originally Posted by Acajack
Ottawa is up to its eyeballs in LRT and BRT projects until at least the late 2020s.
Gatineau has no rapid transit at all in the booming western part of the city and people are screaming for relief from commuter chaos.
The PoW is not even close to being at the top of the list for either city and look at what they have on their plate above it.
If you have confidence that Ottawa and Gatineau can walk, chew gum, juggle, play the piano and knit a sweater all at the same time when it comes to transit development... go for it!
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Au contraire. I actually want to end the charade of pretending the Trillium line is ever going to extend across the river. It's a costly fantasy that will accomplish very little if it is only extended to Taché. Putting the PoW permanently on the plans as a BRT bridge places it on a different plate to chew. It would set the ball rolling on decommissioning of the rails, removing the get-it-ready-in-12-months-if-someone-wants-to-use-it dagger dangling overhead, and schedules its renovation on its own sweet time.
Even Bayview wasn't designed for such an extension, the planned second platform for the Trillium Line can't be accessed if there was through track, the obvious intention is for people to walk around the end because the stairs, escalators and elevators are only on one side. There is, however a door out to a lower level plaza opposite the tracks begging for a separate mode that goes across the bridge in any shape or form Gatineau would want it to be in the future.
Like I said in a previous post, Gatineau's transit needs are different from Ottawa's and a proper rapid transit link across the bridge is best determined and controlled by STO, not OC Transpo.