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Tremblay

Saturday, June 23, 2018

Tremblay Station is located directly next to the VIA Rail Ottawa station. In addition to providing access to the VIA Rail station, it also serves Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Park (Baseball Stadium), the Hampton Inn and Marriot Courtyard hotels via the Max Keeping pedestrian bridge that crosses over Highway 417, as well as to other nearby destinations.

Tremblay Station offers one entrance, and a side platform layout. The entrance is oriented towards the VIA Rail station and features an overhead canopy to help shield passengers from the natural elements. This canopy is the main art installation and features mirrored stainless steel cutouts of the different provincial and territorial flowers that hang and sway with the wind, which also allow sunlight to pass through from above. It is definitely worth seeing in person as the effect and uniqueness cannot be replicated in the photo. Surrounding this area is a public plaza, complete with benches and seating.

From the large open concourse, stairs and dual elevator banks provide access to the platform level below. The first half of the platform is contained within the station building, while the far end extends beyond and is surrounded by glass curtain walls, providing views of the surrounding natural vegetation and green spaces, especially along the far end of the westbound platform.

Overall, Tremblay Station is a station with a relatively simple design that offers large open and airy spaces, great viewpoints of the track and beyond, and calming scenery outside the station walls. With stunning artwork outside along the pathway to the entrance and an abundance of natural light inside, Tremblay is a standout example of the design and execution of making a public transit facility a welcoming place.

UNIQUE FEATURES

The stunning artwork at this station is among the best along the Confederation Line. The intricacy and detail achieved demonstrate plenty of imagination in its design. It truly must be seen in person to be appreciated. The open spaces, airy feeling and soaring rooflines of the station combine perfectly to create an inviting environment to catch the train. As this station is one of the first places people arriving in Ottawa by VIA Rail will visit, it is a perfect setting, both visually and in design to fulfill this important role of welcoming visitors and tourists in addition to residents returning home.

PUBLIC ARTWORK

Title: National Garden

Artist: Jyhling Lee (Toronto, ON)

National Garden is an imaginary landscape composed of the official flowers from each Canadian province, territory and the City of Ottawa. Situated alongside the VIA Rail Station, the sculptural plaza canopy recognizes the faraway destinations that can be reached by train and acknowledges the distant places that travellers may have come from. The flowers are mementos from abroad. National Garden celebrates both the romance of travel and recognizes, through the depiction of vernacular flowers, the unique and delicate qualities of Canadian culture and the physical landscape.

Mirrored finish stainless steel panels will be integrated onto the underside of the glass canopy over the pedestrian walkway towards the station from the VIA Rail Station. The panels will have cut-outs with fold-over pieces depicting various silhouettes of provincial and territorial flowers, and Ottawa's municipal flower.

_{Artwork descriptions provided by the City of Ottawa}

STATION FACTS AND MAP

Opening Date: September 14, 2019
Line: Confederation Line
Previous Station: St-Laurent (1300 metres)
Following Station: Hurdman (945 metres)

STATION RIDERSHIP (November 2019)

Balanced Boardings: 24,000
Weekday Average: 900
Weekend Average: 600

_{Balanced boardings are the average number of entries and exits at O-Train stations.}

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Cyrville

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Shane Seguin

The Stations

Cyrville Station is located underneath Cyrville Road, just north of Highway 417. Cyrville Station is well positioned to encourage growth and development in this region over the coming years with more residential developments as well as commercial and office space planned.

The station layout features a centre platform, allowing easy access to both directions of travel on the Confederation Line. There are two entrances, located on both sides of Cyrville Road. The main entrance is located on the eastern side of Cyrville Road and features fare gates and an entrance concourse. The second entrance, situated directly across the street, is much smaller and as a result only contains stairs and an elevator, with the fare gates located below at platform level.

A multi-use pathway is located along the station length, with convenient access stairs to the left of the main station entrance.

The sheer size of the station can be observed from Cyrville Road as you can easily see the entire station's platforms unimpeded. The platform is wide and open, flanked by natural vegetation and green on both sides. The station's art piece is called "Stand of Birch", and is 13 stainless steel birch trees, placed at the far northern end of the station platform. All these elements combine to create a rare space of calmness in the city and the transit network.

Cyrville Station is at first glance a simple station but look a little deeper and you will find it stands out in form, design and landscape.

UNIQUE FEATURES

Cyrville Station is one of several perfect places to observe train movements from within the station and above from Cyrville Road. The two sides of the platform are easily seen and viewed. With plenty of sweeping lines in the architecture, and the many vantage points available, there is no end of possibilities for train spotting and photography.

PUBLIC ARTWORK

Title: Stand of Birch

Artist: Don Maynard (Kingston, ON)

Thirteen slender stainless steel birch trees, measuring 7.3 metres tall, are located on the north end of the Cyrville Station platform surrounded by prairie grasses.

"For thousands of years, indigenous peoples have used the bark from birch trees to build their canoes. They travelled on the Gatineau, Rideau and Ottawa rivers to trade, hunt and meet with family and friends. Things have not changed much.

Stand of Birch is a grouping of 13 slender birch trees at the end of a long winding river of grasses; in the canopy, branches intertwine and connect. Stand of Birch references the coming-together of the people of Ottawa as they travel across the city – linked together by its 13 Light Rail Transit stations."

_{Artwork descriptions provided by the City of Ottawa}