Here’s a serious question:
What about having a station at, say, Bells Corners or Wesley Clover Park, and then crossing over to the Quebec side with the main station in downtown Gatineau, around Place du Portage?
- This would maintain a west-end station;
- Would push the train through the Federally-owned Greenbelt;
- Put a ‘downtown’ station closer to the Parliament Buildings than any other option; and
- There might be less interference along the north shore of the Ottawa River than through Ontario.
If money permitted, they could also fund a subway (maybe wide enough for pedestrians and train between PdP and Sparks) from that ‘downtown’ station under the river and continue it under Bank Street.
PS Build the west-end river crossing for traffic also, so that there is a more westerly vehicle crossing.
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