Ottawa LRT

[plam]

All the concept drawings for the transit terminal show the existing LRT station continuing to exist as it is outside of the actual transit terminal building itself. There is no plan to truly integrate the stations as one might expect when both are planned together. Of course we already expect this lack of coordination from the fiasco of the traction power substation occupying the space that should have been used for the Waterloo St. pedestrian tunnel.

Montréal's buildings attached to Metro entrances weren't quite coordinated, I believe, except in the loosest sense: the city gave companies "emphyteutic" leases which allowed the companies to improve the entrance but reverted ownership to the city after the lease term. So there's more private sector than we would think for Montreal.

ijmorlan, you might enjoy this article on how Montreal got all these covered stations:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8267/23...9b25d3.pdf