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Originally Posted by OtrainUser
You asked why. Well the streetcars were abandoned because they kept getting caught in traffic and there were lots of car crashes to name a couple of reasons of not making that same mistake again.
Anyway I took line 1 to get to work and its now much easier since i wont be getting caught in traffic anymore.
As for your comment about why should they extend line 2 to gatineau the answer is easy, the are lots of transit users from Barrhaven and Kanata that work at place de portage hence the routes of 61,63, 66 and 75 going to gatineau. So any extension into Gatineau is about serving Ottawa residents not Gatineau residents that you would falsly claim it is.
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Just remember I was writing that comment from Toronto after using Toronto streetcars for 4 straight days in mixed traffic very successfully. Ottawa's surface route would have been in much better exclusive lanes.
Also, the original comment was to extend the Trillium Line via the Rapibus corridor. This would not serve Ottawa riders going to the government complexes in downtown Hull.