By Carys Mills, Ottawa Citizen, September 8, 2014
When city council nixed plans for a private Sandy Hill student residence earlier
this year, some politicians floated an idea: Ottawa’s transit system means
students don’t need to live close to campus. “We have a very good transit stop,
one of the best-used stops in all of Ottawa is at the Campus Station, and it’s
going to get even better in a few years when the light-rail station arrives on
that site,” Mayor Jim Watson said at the March council meeting. “So it does
allow students not necessarily to simply have to choose to live in the Sandy
Hill community to go to Ottawa U.” via
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