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Originally Posted by YOWetal
It is a reasonable obsession as these things go. It fundamentally changes the dynamic.
I don't get the backing up or lost infrastrucure at Union Station argument. I assume a $60 Billion bill includes a lot of tunnelling so it would be built underneath Line 1. If we want to scale back and have a sort of high speed route which is even reasonable for especially Montreal to Ottawa it can use existing infrastructure and be done for a fraction of the cost. The talk of Laval suggests an entirely new route.
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Presumably the $60B doesn't include billions more for tunneling under downtown Ottawa. I also don't think it is at all obvious that downtown is better, particularly when 90% of the city lives in the suburbs and the "downtown station" doesn't connect to any sort of regional commuter rail network.
If they were going to spend some money it would be better to increase the frequency of Line 1 back to 5 minutes and to build a proper covered connection between the train station and the LRT station.
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