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Europe has a billion things in its favour, that's not exactly what a North American city should be benchmarking itself against.

We should be emulating other North American cities that have done very well with transit, such as Vancouver and Toronto.

Toronto, at least within the 416 and increasingly in Mississauga and Brampton as well, has done a very good job resolving the last mile problem with efficient local bus service. On that topic, in my opinion that is the worst issue with Ottawa's transit progress or lack thereof: The failure of the city to understand the value and importance of frequent, efficient local bus routes. We're going to spend billions on what's basically a metro system, but with half the city getting no more than a bus coming twice an hour that winds its way through loop-de-loops.