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Originally Posted by J.OT13
Streetcars on Rideau would be a disaster. It's way to busy, dense and urban for streetcars. Rideau should be next on the list, along with bank, for a full fledged subway.
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Ever been to Toronto? Its streetcar routes are even busier, denser, and urbaner.
Ditto Vancouver's trolleybus routes.
There is nothing about Rideau that streetcars couldn't run on it, though I'd prefer an underground alignment for the Rideau-Montreal LRT west of about Notre-Dame Cemetery. But given that it won't be built in this lame, backwards-thinking, cheap suburban shell of a city until some time in the 25th century, who cares? Buses, overcrowded buses, with poorly-trained drivers who couldn't keep on a smooth trajectory if their lives depended on it, are good enough for the actual city of Ottawa; only the burbs are entitled to rail transit.
I wish the east side of downtown had a city councilor.