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Originally Posted by Acajack
There are many of them for sure, but they would be served as well or probably better* served by rapid transit crossing in some way at Chaudière or Portage.
*Since my sense is that more of them live east as opposed to west and southwest. This is anecdotal I admit, but regardless a significant chunk of them from the east and southeast of Ottawa would have to go several km west, in order to come back several km east to Terrasses and Portage.
This has always been the problem with using the POW for rapid transit: it forces too large of a chunk of potential users to backtrack to get to the main destinations we're claiming to serve. (True of both potential Gatineau users and Ottawa users.)
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This speak more to why a single transit connection across the river makes no sense. You need at least one on either side of downtown.