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Originally Posted by acottawa
I am not clear what problem these proposals are trying to solve. The bus and train generally serve the same routes, so there is not much intermodal transferring going on.
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There isn't much intermodal transferring going on because it is inconvenient to do so. I bet plenty of people heading to and from Sudbury (or any point in Northern Ontario for that matter) and Montreal would love to split their trip between bus and train if they had the opportunity.
The Ottawa train station was once such a hub when the trains used to run northwest from here. Before the massive cuts in the 1980s the place was quite lively with people transferring between the transcontinental and corridor trains. Moving the bus station would make the station regain some of that activity back, plus for many bus travellers, a multi-hour layover at the Trainyards with its Walmart, cheap box stores and chain restaurants would probably be more appealing than grungy Catherine Street despite its proximity to Bank. The LRT puts the rest of the city within easy reach anyway. I could see a budget hotel doing well at the Trainyards, too.
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