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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
HSR will remove a lot of short haul flights freeing up space in both Toronto and Montreal. YOW would also have fewer flights. Keep the station where it is.
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The only flights that will be reduced are the ones between Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. That's a drop in the bucket in the amount of traffic in YUL snd YYZ, hardly enough to "free up space".
Keeping the current station means slowing down HSR, adding a significant amount of time between a Toronto-Montreal run. Winding through the 30km or so tracks from Barrhaven to Mer Bleue at 50kph will easily add 20 to 30 minutes. HSR needs the ability to breeze through and stop for a few minutes in Ottawa and be quickly on its way to either Toronto or Montreal.
Having an HSR station in the city centre is actually not common, usually it's only when the city is the terminal destination. Certainly not in China, and in Europe the large cities have several stations, and if it is a en route destination the trains stop at a by-pass station for efficiency. They just have their stations interconnected with good public transit.
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