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Via Rail would eventually send trains through Barrhaven at the rate of two per hour in its proposition to establish a high-frequency service between Ontario and Quebec.
The projections are included in the study on removing level train crossings at five locations in Barrhaven.
Via has a $4-billion proposal to upgrade its service in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal-Quebec City corridor. In the Ottawa leg, Via wants to use existing or discontinued rights of way. The Via-owned track goes through Barrhaven.
It’s unknown if Via would operate a high-frequency service through Ottawa without having grade-separated crossings completed in the southern suburb.
“Via Rail submitted the high frequency rail project to the government for consideration and it’s currently under study. As such, it will be premature to answer your question,” Via spokeswoman Miriam Diaby said in an email.
The crossings at Woodroffe Avenue, the adjacent southwest Transitway and Merivale Road each see 26 trains daily and all but one are passenger trains, the study says. The Fallowfield Road and Jockvale Road crossings see 19 trains daily, and again all but one are passenger trains.
According to the numbers provided by Via to the study authors in March 2017, the company wants to run up to 38 trains through Barrhaven by 2021 under its high-frequency rail plan. Under a regular service plan, there would be up to 32 trains rolling through the suburb by 2021.
By 2031, Via wants to run up to 48 trains through Barrhaven on its proposed high-frequency service. If it’s a regular train service, the number of trains would be up to 32 by that year.
Some of the trains would be empty as Via prepares start-of-day and end-of-day services.
The city and Via hired Parsons for the study following an investigation by the Transportation Safety Board into the September 2013 fatal collision in Barrhaven between an OC Transpo double-decker bus and a Via train.
The study confirmed that the roads should be separated from the five train crossings, but the work would cost about $430 million. The city doesn’t have that kind of money, so it would need to get the federal government to help pay.
First, there needs to be environmental assessments for the work.
Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder said safety should come before affordability.
“We’ll have ready-to-go projects and we’ll be looking to the feds and Via to contribute to the cost,” Harder said, adding that the city has already paid the full cost of grade separation on Greenbank Road in a $58-million road-widening project.
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The projections are included in the study on removing level train crossings at five locations in Barrhaven.
Via has a $4-billion proposal to upgrade its service in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal-Quebec City corridor. In the Ottawa leg, Via wants to use existing or discontinued rights of way. The Via-owned track goes through Barrhaven.
It’s unknown if Via would operate a high-frequency service through Ottawa without having grade-separated crossings completed in the southern suburb.
“Via Rail submitted the high frequency rail project to the government for consideration and it’s currently under study. As such, it will be premature to answer your question,” Via spokeswoman Miriam Diaby said in an email.
The crossings at Woodroffe Avenue, the adjacent southwest Transitway and Merivale Road each see 26 trains daily and all but one are passenger trains, the study says. The Fallowfield Road and Jockvale Road crossings see 19 trains daily, and again all but one are passenger trains.
According to the numbers provided by Via to the study authors in March 2017, the company wants to run up to 38 trains through Barrhaven by 2021 under its high-frequency rail plan. Under a regular service plan, there would be up to 32 trains rolling through the suburb by 2021.
By 2031, Via wants to run up to 48 trains through Barrhaven on its proposed high-frequency service. If it’s a regular train service, the number of trains would be up to 32 by that year.
Some of the trains would be empty as Via prepares start-of-day and end-of-day services.
The city and Via hired Parsons for the study following an investigation by the Transportation Safety Board into the September 2013 fatal collision in Barrhaven between an OC Transpo double-decker bus and a Via train.
The study confirmed that the roads should be separated from the five train crossings, but the work would cost about $430 million. The city doesn’t have that kind of money, so it would need to get the federal government to help pay.
First, there needs to be environmental assessments for the work.
Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder said safety should come before affordability.
“We’ll have ready-to-go projects and we’ll be looking to the feds and Via to contribute to the cost,” Harder said, adding that the city has already paid the full cost of grade separation on Greenbank Road in a $58-million road-widening project.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
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