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Originally Posted by steveintoronto
What I do see is some runs that start or terminate in Ottawa could do so from Gatineau via Ottawa. Gatineau region is more populace than many other cities VIA serves. It also allows VIA to show, as their mandate implies, that they serve cities interprovincially where possible. The route north of the river also has aspects of better entering Montreal, but that's another matter that involves the Mount Royal Tunnel and REM discussion.
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That would be a pretty low-benefit proposition. Downtown Gatineau is only about 4 km from the Ottawa train station (and has good transit connections), and there is no obviously convenient place to put a Gatineau train station. Such a strategy would require a significant curtailing (or maybe elimination) of the o-train service (which serves about 15k passengers per day) and would slow down Via services and tie up rolling stock.
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