The Central Bus Terminal was a prime example that proximity to downtown is not the most important (let alone: only) criterion to determine the ideal location for an intercity bus terminal, as the integration to the local and urban bus network was really bad. That obviously depends on the...

Maybe the term „train station“ is ambiguous, but I would argue that „rail station“ is the generally accepted term to cover intercity and suburban rail stations without including stations which only serve urban rail services such as Metro, LRT or Streetcar. May I ask you how many „rail stations“...

I would nominate Napanee, which is incredibly idyllic at the river and the waterfall (which you can see when passing over the bridge right above the waterfall and should be well within walking distance from the rail station). Unfortunately, none of the Montreal-Toronto trains stops there, so I‘d...

Last time I checked, Ottawa Rail Station was located at the intersection of two of the cuty‘s busiest roadways, the Highway 417 and the Vanier Parkway. If you treat intermodality with the intercity rail station as an afterthought, then naturally ridership will remain well below its potential...

Contrary to what @guavadelic wrote, no Corridor services will disappear, as they will simply switch operators. Whatever is happening east of TRTO can also happen west of it, just a few years later…

VIA‘s Corridor services are getting replaced and overall expanded by HFR, which is the exact opposite of „slowly phasing out of service“…

Transit stops are not train stations. There are currently only two train stations in Ottawa: Ottawa and Fallowfield. „Train Station“ or „Rail Station“ would have been fine. Virtually every other city on this planet manages to name transit stops in a way that they clearly indicate the immediate...

I have no idea why this needs to be re-emphasized here, but there absolutely is no market for GO along the Havelock Subdivision to serve if HFR happens and yes, of course, there will need to be a train to arrive in Toronto well before 9 am, similar to what #641 is already offering today:

TOM as Phase 1, SWO as Phase 2 and MQ as Phase 3 would indeed be the most logical sequence, especially now that the Mont-Royal tunnel has been thrown down the drain. However, Ontarians have nobody else than their provincial governments to blame for pursuing their own HSR election stunt pet...

Just a quick note that stations only add travel time for those trains which actually stop there. Small stations would be adequately served with as little as 3 stops per day, allowing same-day-return (e.g., commuter) trips as well as mid-day trips. However, there still needs to be any relevant...

Let‘s not forget about the railfans which would drive down from Sudbury to Myrtle just to jump on a train to Toronto…! :rolleyes:

Independently from whether we are talking about intercity (HxR) or commuter (GO) rail, I fail to identify a single location between Greenbelt and Peterborough which could possibly justify a stop.

Quick reminder that Peterborough-Ottawa is 276 km using the (previously) existing alignment, which implies an average speed of 184-276 km/h when assuming travel times of 60-90 minutes…

That‘s how it reads, at least:

What else would you expect in a city where the LRT station built to serve the rail station is called „Tremblay“. VIA has always been an afterthought…

User @micheal_can only ever hears what he wants to hear, which is why most of us have blocked him here, in absence of mods who are willing to save us from his relentless trolling like they already did over on Skyscraperpage…

I’m really curious what happened. Bridges usually don’t collapse, especially without carrying any loads…

Point is that the procurement strategy does not signficantly diverge from other federal procurements, if I‘m not mistaken…

My understanding is that it was absolutely the same with the Corridor fleet: the funding only gets appropriated (or disclosed) once the bids are received, as was also explicitly mentioned in Budget 2024: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/message/98271

Just to be sure: 77 years (e.g., from 1947 to 2024) is the maximum age, not the average age of the legacy fleet.