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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
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.
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But in TO, streetcars are a supplement to the subway. Why do you think they built the original Yonge Street line; overcrowded streetcar line, just like Rideau's have we kept the old system.
I just don't believe in building a system we removed 60 years ago. time to upgrade.