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Originally Posted by roger1818
I agree with that portion of your post 100%.
I disagree with you here 100%. First of all, it should be kept in federal control, just like all of the other interprovincial bridges in the NCR.
Secondly, as discussed before, having STO dump all of their downtown bound passengers off at Bayview, requiring OC Transpo carry them the rest of the way, makes no sense. Dumping STO passengers at Bayview would be a burden on the Confederation Line.
With the current arrangement, STO transports the majority of their riders to their destination and the few that need to go further are mostly travelling contraflow, and thus filling seats that would otherwise be empty. As a result, it is of little cost to OC Transpo.
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federal control, city control, i dont really care - the main point is that STO would be running the lines to aylmer and hull over the POW.
As for the seat-balancing issue, a lot of ottawans are going to be switching onto STO at bayview to go to hull. You can currently watch all these ottawans between 7am and 9am doing the lebreton shuffle. It's their seats the gatinois will be filling, both towards downtown and tunneys.
the idea of continuing the current network architecture for the region, where STO maintains a network of Ottawa destinations and OC maintains a network of Hull destinations, seems insane to bring into the rail era. Do we really want STO maintaining an Ottawa LRT network and OC maintaining their own, separate, Hull LRT network?