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Originally Posted by Beedok
Still annoyed that not only did Ottawa use a terrible design for the trains they bought, but the fact they replaced existing fully grade separated (bus) rapid transit with it, which, outside of downtown at rush hour, generally made the system more annoying to use even when it’s working due to the forced transfers of the LRT only covering part of the BRT, is just… depressing. Especially when construction on the LRT meant shutting down large chunks of the BRT network, forcing buses onto general traffic roads.
Hamilton, thankfully, doesn’t have that issue.
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The forced transfers is more of a temporary condition until the second phase opens in a few years. The system is still too small for Ottawa as it stands, once the second phase opens the transfers will be less annoying.
The biggest oddity with the Ottawa system is that they used light rail vehicles at all, given that it's really a full metro system with 100% grade seperation.