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 #1559827  by ClintonDesveaux
 
This guy is a respected voice for the urban core who has a podcast with a large and dedicated Ottawa audience. He has done a number of episodes on the O-Train network. This episode he is talking about the Bank Street O-Train Tunnel:



 #1559925  by electricron
 
Ottawa is a fairly large city with a population of nearly 1 million.How many participated in the poll, and did 50% of those in the poll amount to 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000, or half a million votes?
 #1561361  by ClintonDesveaux
 
electricron wrote: Mon Dec 28, 2020 7:20 pm Ottawa is a fairly large city with a population of nearly 1 million.How many participated in the poll, and did 50% of those in the poll amount to 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000, or half a million votes?
Actually Ottawa Gatineau has a population of 1,441,118
 #1569875  by dowlingm
 
All this talk of building a new line - did Chrystia Freeland have any money for the airport station in the existing project in her budget?
https://www.obj.ca/article/local/touris ... d-covid-19

Hard to say that there can be so much enthusiasm for what would be a very expensive downtown project after a) the sinkhole from Confederation Line construction, b) how can a proper approval process happen this time around

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/r ... -1.4564015
https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/o ... te-2152753