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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
If we want to capture people coming in on the 417, it is time to think of commuter rail on the VIA rail line that serves that very corridor. I am not that keen on spending a whole pile of our property tax money on very expensive LRT to serve those mostly coming from outside Ottawa. Time for the province to start putting a little cash in.
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It's way cheaper to let the relatively small number of exurbanites keep on driving (which they all already do) and have them leave their cars outside the city, than to provide them with special train service which only a fraction of them will take and will end up being subsidized by all of us.
The LRT extension to that part of town is useful for people in the city not just those from the outside. Plus if it reduces the amount of cars downtown everyone benefits.
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