{"id":493798,"date":"2026-02-23T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/493798\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:22:08","slug":"think-big-senate-building-should-be-turned-into-high-speed-rail-hub-in-2037","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/493798\/","title":{"rendered":"Think big: Senate Building should be turned into high-speed rail hub in 2037"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe grand old Ottawa Union Station should be brought back to its original purpose and glory. Our city needs a train station downtown to best serve the people of Ottawa, tourists, MPs, Senators, cabinet ministers, and staffers. Think big for this beautiful city and for the generations to come.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"960\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6L8A2036.t65afee8b.m2048.xfNTvTvBV-e1771598049924.jpg\"  data- data-eio-rwidth=\"1920\" data-eio-rheight=\"960\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tThe ceiling is glorious in the foyer of the Senate Building.  The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade                 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The grand old Ottawa Union Station should be brought back to its original purpose and glory. Our city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-493798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}