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Originally Posted by Richard Eade
If HSR happens, perhaps the VIA station could be moved to beside, and connect with, the Hurdman transit station; and the intercity bus facilities could be integrated at the same time. Such a move would form a real transportation hub and release the land VIA is using on Tremblay. It doesn't look as if VIA uses the array of tracks behind the Tremblay building.
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1) HSR is not happening anytime soon. And possibly not in our lifetimes. We'll be lucky if HFR gets through unmolested.
2) HFR or HSR, Ottawa will not be a terminus, it will be a through station. As such, the station approaches are very much relevant. And VIA will not be interested in moving the station to facilitate a transit hub, if it negatively impacts the intercity train service.
3) What you propose is a billion dollar endeavour in a country where transit is at best, tolerated, in a city where we still can get sub-10 min bus service to most of the city. There's no way anybody is funding this billion dollar hub. Whatever gets built, it'll be done as cheaply as possible. Far easier and cheaper to build a rail/bus/transit hub at Tremblay than to move the VIA station to Hurdman. It's also questionable cost-benefit ratio when all you're adding is the SE Transitway.
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