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Originally Posted by J.OT13
I wasn't always on board with this project, but I now understand the importance of it. We can't place all of our hopes and dreams in the rail projects. We need infrastructure to compliment the rail network and provide good transit for the entire city. By building-up multi-modal transit, especially within the Greenbelt, we can increase ridership in a significant way to the point where rail will one day be justified for more than just suburb to downtown commutes.
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Stockholm is probably a good comparison to Ottawa. A city that is perhaps 50% bigger than Ottawa but has quadruple the transit ridership. In the long-term, dependence on one rail line is going to sink Ottawa and actually encourage auto dependence if we cannot resolve reliability issues. We need a more complex transit grid, some rail, some buses. We have fallen way behind thanks largely to governments like Mike Harris that delayed transit development in Ontario by 20 years.
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