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Originally Posted by J.OT13
It's not free. Ottawa income tax payers are partly funding this. Why would the City of Ottawa property tasked to chip in, but not the Cities of Montreal for a new Mount Royal tunnel, Toronto, Quebec City? Again, we're seen as being second class. Ottawa (and even more so Gatineau) has historically been underfunded. We paid 50% of our O-Train while Toronto and Montreal get basically "free" transit lines (as in City Governments don't need to chip in much, if at all).
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I call BS. In both Toronto and Montreal cases whatever is being built is being done to access existing stations/infrastructure that would be a full terminus on one side or substantial service terminus on the other. The Ottawa Union fan club is asking Alto to build a hub that doesn't exist while giving up one that does. For a station that would not be a terminus for most of the services. So no, this isn't some great conspiracy to shaft Ottawa. Come on now.
Also, a metro of 1.7M is nowhere close to contributing the same as the metros of 7.1M and 4.6M.
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