Ottawa Rapid Transit Network developments

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I think that one of Ottawa's biggest problems is that it has invested in a rapid transit system but the city's employers are not sufficiently compelled to locate close to its stations.

It is not so much about where people live (at least from a transit perspective) as it is about where they work. There are places like Copenhagen, Denmark where you have single-family homes in great numbers (at densities not too far off from what you see in Orleans and Kanata these days) but employment nodes are much more convenient to non-automobile transportation there. None of this crap like office parks in the middle of a field with maybe one feeder bus every half-hour at rush hour and then virtually no service for the rest of the day.

Places to shop and play in Copenhagen (even in the suburbs) are also often located within reasonable walking distance of single-family home zones. This is another thing you don't see so much of here.