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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
First, there is a direct cost to Ottawa taxpayers for transferring all STO riders at Bayview. We will need to purchase, maintain and operate additional trains. Reducing the number of STO buses downtown saves nothing. We still need to maintain and plow the streets.
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Good grief. Nobody is proposing that all STO riders transfer at Bayview. Just an alternative for those who need to. People who want to go to Tunney's, St-Laurent, VIA station, Bayshore, Carleton, Algonquin, the airport, etc., anywhere but downtown. People who will take the O-Train no matter what, so they should be accounted for in the passenger volumes anyway whether they have to board at Pimisi, Lyon, Parliament or Rideau. No extra trains needed, less people on the downtown STO loop-de-doop. A simple, logical rapid transit-to-rapid transit system link that everyone seems to like dancing around while pondering what to do with a rotting bridge.
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