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Originally Posted by J.OT13
We're slowing down the line with suburban stations in Montreal and Toronto.
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Those stations are enroute. And have catchment populations that appraoach the population of Ottawa. The downtown option here imposes a time penalty to everybody for very questionable gains. The likely outcome could well be losing service as trains from Toronto to Montreal get prioritized and are run through. I would prefer half hourly service at Tremblay over hourly service at Union.
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Originally Posted by J.OT13
Money is no object, Ottawa Union would absolutely be the best location. It's not just about a 10 min O-Train ride, it's just the best location full stop.
I can understand the cost reasoning, less so the time reasoning considering the added stations in suburban Montreal and Toronto.
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The article below lists the considerations:
- the price to build the station location
- the increase in ridership at the proposed locations
- inconvenience during construction
Downtown really fails across several of these. And really most of these have been obvious for a while here. It's only stupid Toronto and Montreal envy that had people thinking otherwise.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/225...tesse-gare-ottawa-centre-ville-difficile
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