O-Train Line 1 [Stage 1 | Confederation Line] | In Service

[Richard Eade]

Yeah, uOttawa Station has a huge turnover. Two Wednesdays ago, I got off a packed east-bound train at uOttawa, around 13:30. It hadn’t dawned on me before that the east-bound platform only has one stairway for access. It took forever (OK, many minutes) for everyone to shuffle their way along the over-crowded platform to the stairs and interline as they descended. Several had obviously done this before and headed straight to the elevator. They were down long before the vast majority of the stair-climbers.

It was always known that uOttawa was going to be a busy station. How was it ever designed to have a single set of stairs on that platform? Is there a way to fix this? It seems to me to be a dangerous situation.

PS The west-bound platform has both stairs and a side access.