Ottawa intercity bus terminal relocation

[DTcrawler]

To reiterate what I said on my last post, I don't know if building a new bus terminal solves anything. Like I said, Flixbus uses a gas station parking lot in Kanata instead of one of the stops at Terry Fox station. For their "central" stop, they use the most remote part of the Ikea parking lot instead of the actual bus loop closer to the bus stops on Iris St (adjacent to Home Societe).

So better options already exist, even in the absence of a purpose-built, intercity bus terminal, and the companies are not using them. As someone else said, that likely has something to do with minimizing costs as much as possible while also not sharing facilities with other operators (Rider Express already uses the bus loop near Iris that I mentioned, for example).

And again, going back to Toronto, most of these companies don't use the Union Bus Terminal, which would be the gold standard in terms of local connectivity options.

I think this problem is beyond the scope of City Hall.