From The Windsor Star

WINDSOR, Ont. — The rumours can finally be pushed aside as federal government and Via Rail officials announced Monday that Windsor will see construction of a new $6.3-million train station next door to the current location.

Construction will begin this June with a completion date slated for fall 2011. The new facility will be built just east of the existing station, said Marc Laliberte, president and CEO for Via.

Talk of a new Via train station in Windsor has been around for years with potential sites that included the current site, the airport or a location near Wellington Avenue near the rail tunnel entrance.

“The other locations, you need everybody agreeing,” Laliberte said. “There has been work on different scenarios, but it takes a long time. We don’t want to wait forever. We have decided to stay here for right now.

“It’s a project that we have been contemplating for many years and now is the time to do it. If something else happens in two, three or five years, we will look at it again.”

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