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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
no, as all those respective lines have easy ways of getting downtown. The only equivalent here to Ottawa's situation is Vancouver's airport rail link. REM and UPx are express rail services running on rail corridors right into the downtown, and the UPx is used exclusively as an airport shuttle. The Trillium line will be part of the mass transit network, like Vancouver's. What I WOULD have been fine with is if the Bloor line ran to the airport, transferring at St. George. Of course the UPx stopping at bloor would have been absurd, as the whole point of that train would be to get people from the airport to downtown. The Trillium line doesn't do that however, the aiport is just another stop on the mass transit line.
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But it isn't just another stop on the a mass transit line. They are building that spur specifically to serve the airport. If they can't do it right, why waste my tax money? And they are wasting it.
More cities build their airport stops on regular mass transit lines than build express routes. Toronto is more an exception than the rule. But in most cases, the trains go directly downtown. The examples I have taken are BART in San Francisco and Portland's MAX LRT. Tell me one North American city that is proposing an airport rail connection that requires 2 transfers to reach downtown other than Ottawa?
The current plan is like dumping you at the Georgetown Go Train junction and make you transfer to a GO train that doesn't go to Union Station but makes you transfer again a couple of km short of the station.
Ottawa's plan is a garbage plan that cannot possibly work reliably with the trunk route attempting to operate with a single track.
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