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Originally Posted by silvergate
Well getting suburban cars out of the urban core would open up a lot of space for better bike lanes, bus routes, and pedestrian friendly streets. It's an unfortunate fact of life that subways are 1) prohibitively expensive and 2) Ottawa has little to no real options for raising revenues to build them anyways. The best way I can think of to promote better mobility in the core is tolls for entering designated areas, which many people on here doubt would work.
Perhaps the City should try and break the stigma on busses, to drive up ridership numbers, and beyond that building a solid movement for better transit in the core.
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The "stigma" isn't the problem.
It's too many overcrowded buses (WHERE ARE THE DAMN ARTICS??!?!?)
It's the unwillingness to start installing transit-preferential signals at intersections, a technology that's existed for two decades.
And above all, it's a city that's run by the suburbs - and now, always will be.
There will never, ever, be real rapid transit in old urban neighbourhoods. This is now baked into the city's forms and institutions.
Real transit is for the suburbs. Urban peasants, enjoy your overcrowded 40-foot buses.
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