Debanné: Quiet loss — Ottawa's lack of a central, inter-city bus station hurts us all
How can the Canadian capital not have a bus station? And how did we not realize it was happening?
On an unseasonably warm late October day, I decided to go visit the old bus station with one of my architecture students. This was after a long conversation in which we decided that rejuvenating the bus station by folding a multi-use building — concert hall, hotel, affordable housing — into it would make a great thesis project. While I was aware that the site had been sold to Brigil, I remained somehow confident that the bus station would magically reopen. In the busyness of my life, I had not connected the dots. Read More