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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
How can we justify spending a huge amount of money on the POW bridge for a small minority of STO riders heading south or west from Bayview? Let's face it, people going east of downtown will happily board a downtown bus if it were the first to arrive, which is likely since the bulk of riders presently are heading downtown and presumably will still have direct buses.
I am not sure what the benefit will be of splitting routes between downtown and relatively close by Bayview. The outcome will be degraded frequencies to both destinations. And the point of all of this is to get rid of more buses out of downtown? Why is this such a top priority?
It seems to me we are looking for solution for a problem that does not exist. Now, if we were actually to come up with a proposal that actually delivers better service for the majority, I am all in. But, any such solution will require a much better analysis of interprovincial needs and a much bigger investment.
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This basically sums up my opinion.
It's clear the city struggles to find a purpose for it right now, hence the lack of any public discourse, meetings etc. Ottawa is in the midst of a major transit change and will be caught up in LRT development for the foreseeable future. Figuring out what to do with PoW will be on the back burner for a long time and understandably so.