I guess something else to keep in mind is that LRT in particular has probably been getting a lot of bad press lately in Canadian planning circles due to major problems with the newest lines in Edmonton and Ottawa (largely design oversights in Edmonton vs. extensive technical problems in Ottawa). The City of Hamilton controversially bought up and vacated a bunch of buildings to make room for an LRT corridor and now the LRT project is probably not even going to be built anymore and the City is stuck in a very awkward position.
Then again Edmonton also built a bus storage facility that can't handle the weight of their buses so I'm not sure that LRT technology itself is the problem in Edmonton's case.
KWC's LRT system on the other hand seems to have gone well but I never hear about it outside of SSP. I think York Region also has LRT or at least BRT with dedicated ROWs, and I think Quebec City might have proper BRT as well. Ottawa has a very extensive BRT system but their new LRT line was (ostensibly) an effort to simplify the central parts of the BRT network, which had become too congested and complicated to work very well (and required more drivers)
Last edited by Hali87; Mar 4, 2020 at 8:19 AM.
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