roger1818
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On the note of Ottawa actually being a union station, I thought this shot of the Canadian in the current station would be appreciated.
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Thanks for sharing the picture!
On the note of Ottawa actually being a union station, I thought this shot of the Canadian in the current station would be appreciated.
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According to that map, VIA owns the building on Terminal Street that backs onto the station. Good on them for having the foresight to acquire it, since it keeps the door open for an entrance on the south side of the tracks.No. The O-Train uses a different station in a separate building adjacent to the Ottawa Station. The land the O-Train is using is mostly owned by the NCC (though they are using a corner of VIA Rail's land) and the land Ottawa station is on is owned by VIA Rail.
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From VIA Rail - Proposed Elevated Passenger Platforms for Ottawa Train Station
AFAIK, it was always theirs and is some type of service building (it has the same, "award wining," blank concrete wall architecture). I believe it is connected to the station via a tunnel. If you look back at old areal photographs of the station, you will see that it used to have tracks filling in the space between the buildings, but at some point the land was sold and the tracks were torn up.According to that map, VIA owns the building on Terminal Street that backs onto the station. Good on them for having the foresight to acquire it, since it keeps the door open for an entrance on the south side of the tracks.
They can get started early and build the new intercity bus terminal there!According to that map, VIA owns the building on Terminal Street that backs onto the station. Good on them for having the foresight to acquire it, since it keeps the door open for an entrance on the south side of the tracks.
I feel like "Union Station" is a bit overused though, and I hope that if they do go for a name change, they try to come up with something more original.
No. The O-Train uses a different station in a separate building adjacent to the Ottawa Station. The land the O-Train is using is mostly owned by the NCC (though they are using a corner of VIA Rail's land) and the land Ottawa station is on is owned by VIA Rail.
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Like Ottawa Station? Or Tremblay? Original names are confusing. Stations should be simple and easy to connect them with the locale.
Do you mean just like how the TTC uses a different area for their "union" subway station? Or their Streetcar station named Union? Or the Go Bus station called union?
The old union stations were many different companies using the same tracks. Taking Toronto's for example, the bus, streetcar and subway stations all are not really a union station, but are still called that.
Maybe a better name could be Intermodal station. Then it would be more accurate.
Counter-Example: Grand Central, Penn Station, King's Cross, and Paddington Stations in NYC and London. With maybe the exception of Grand Central, they're for the most part unique names and I'm fairly certain nobody gets confused by them.Like Ottawa Station? Or Tremblay? Original names are confusing. Stations should be simple and easy to connect them with the locale.
AFAIK, it was always theirs and is some type of service building (it has the same, "award wining," blank concrete wall architecture). I believe it is connected to the station via a tunnel. If you look back at old areal photographs of the station, you will see that it used to have tracks filling in the space between the buildings, but at some point the land was sold and the tracks were torn up.
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1991 aerial photograph from geoOttawa Beta
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2017 aerial photograph from geoOttawa Beta
They can get started early and build the new intercity bus terminal there!
I like the idea of consolidating the intercity bus terminal to Ottawa Station for obvious interconnectivity reasons. But I think it would be better to put it on the north side for better access from highway 417 and for much shorter transfers to the LRT. The current passenger pickup (PPUDO) area could be repurposed into a bus terminal, while passenger pickup moves to a new facility on the south side of the station.
I like the idea of consolidating the intercity bus terminal to Ottawa Station for obvious interconnectivity reasons. But I think it would be better to put it on the north side for better access from highway 417 and for much shorter transfers to the LRT. The current passenger pickup (PPUDO) area could be repurposed into a bus terminal, while passenger pickup moves to a new facility on the south side of the station.
I like the idea of consolidating the intercity bus terminal to Ottawa Station for obvious interconnectivity reasons. But I think it would be better to put it on the north side for better access from highway 417 and for much shorter transfers to the LRT.
The current passenger pickup (PPUDO) area could be repurposed into a bus terminal, while passenger pickup moves to a new facility on the south side of the station.
They have two parking lots. Build a parking structure in the larger lot to the East, which will be needed for the higher traffic levels with HFR. And repurpose the smaller Western lot behind the LRT station for a bus terminal.
I really don't the fascination some people have for locating the bus station so far from the LRT.
We are talking about that, we've talked about redevelopment on the south side of the station which would make both stations easily accessibleNot sure why everyone is worrying about the name of Train train station ... which really doesn't impact people. What about bigger issues ... like a 20-minute walk from the station to the big employers on Terminal Avenue ... whose parking lots back onto the Train train station platforms!