By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen, January 9, 2015
Premier Kathleen Wynne hit Ottawa Friday on the first top of a 10-day tour of
Ontario college and university campuses. David Reevely followed her to a Q&A
session at the Château Laurier. (...) 3 Ottawa’s Liberal MPPs are excited about
a rail link to the airport Now that the city’s transit planners think they can
built an O-Train spur to the airport without wrecking planned rail service to
Riverside South, the hard part will be paying for it. Wynne said she first heard
of the new development when she arrived in Ottawa Friday morning, but all of the
Liberal MPPs are keen to get it built and for the provincial government to help
fund it. The city’s rail plan counts on $1 billion from the province for lines
extending east, west and south but that’s without the airport spur; there’s no
estimate yet what the additional line and station might cost. “We’re excited
about the link to the airport,” Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Bob Chiarelli said when
Wynne deferred to him to comment on the proposal. via
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