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Originally Posted by J.OT13
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Vancouver's Skytrain is infamously terrible in any minor snow event, which is not a huge deal on the west coast, but would be disastrous in Ottawa. That said, high-floor light-rail like Edmonton and Calgary, or REM technology would have been far superior to our low-floor trams, granted.
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It is technology that was originally designed for Toronto and manufactured in North Bay. You would think they understand out east.
That said, by getting away from having drivers that frees up resoruces to sand with spray bottles full of de-ice that can be sprayed on the doors during extreme conditions such as snow fall.