Ottawa's New Rail Line Opens, Transforming Transit and Development

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Ottawa's long-awaited north-south rail line opens on Monday, promising faster, more reliable transit and driving urban development. Councillor Glen Gower calls it a 'game changer'.

The capital’s new north-south rail line is set to open to the public on Monday to kick off the new year, and an Ottawa councillor says it’s “a game changer” in terms of transit times and reliability.

Councillor and chair of the Ottawa Transit Commission, Glen Gower, told Newstalk 580 CFRA's CFRA Live with Andrew Pinsent Saturday the opening of Line 2 and Line 4, originally known as the Trillium Line, is a great way to kick off 2025, noting that connecting downtown Ottawa and Riverside South with a spur to the Ottawa International Airport puts the capital at a competitive advantage. “(Officials at the airport are) very excited, (as) we're only one of two or three airports in Canada that will have a rail transit connection from the airport into other parts of the city,” he said.Despite the opening of Line 2 and Line 4 coming online 17 months behind schedule, Gower says it’s still expected to deliver on the city’s original vision of development, expansion and connectivity. He says the opening of new stations and lines will provide residents with faster and more reliable transit systems, whether they’re going to events or to their jobs. “The north end of this line at Bayview is at LeBreton Flats, and that's going to be the new site for the Sens Arena in a few years. So, you can just see how it's driving the development and transformation of our city along this north-south line,” he said. “We are seeing the same thing as the line heads further east. That’ll open up in the last half of this year, and then going further west and south to Algonquin College and out to Bayshore and Moodie Drive, that'll be in early 2027, and you can see how it's already kind of directing or influencing how the city is developing.” The opening of this line is also going to “significantly” reduce travel time for Carleton University students, no matter where they’re commuting from, he adds. Gower says those students can eventually live a bit further from campus

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