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Originally Posted by Ottawan
Great idea, and coincidentally, it is exactly what the city intends on doing!
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Umm, no they're not. Wherever did you get that idea?
The two projects, as things currently stand, are to be carried out separately. They will dig out the block for the foundation and parkade for the library, while the station, which will be under Albert, will be mined out from within the tunnel. The sole bit of integration will be to provide station access through the library structure.
What RTWAP was talking about was actually putting the station below the library or at least building them as one project. Elsewhere Richard Eade has provided good suggestions on how this could be done, including tunnelling under Slater from LeBreton Flats instead of under Albert.
The main rationale given for mining out the stations was to minimize surface disruption, but in this case that doesn't matter since the site will be excavated anyway. If they built the station in the bottom of the library the station would be completed a lot faster and for a lot less money because it would just be a marginal addition to the library.