West Gatineau Tramway & Downtown Loop | Proposed

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Originally Posted by J.OT13

Yeah, the Aylmer-Ottawa Tramway will have a very different focus than the REM, which is more of a regional commuter metro with its 25 stations on 67 or whatever kilometers. I agree Ion is probably the better counterpart, or the Valley Line in Edmonton, which also has about 1 station per kilometer.

Looking at the map on Rail Fans Canada, there's a lot of potential of combining quite a few stations together. You don't want travel time from Eardley to Ottawa to be an hour, otherwise ridership will be quite low.

Ottawa's likely going to make the same mistake with Stage 3+, with Kanata, Barrhaven and Riverside South planned stations being far too close together, while you have over a kilometer gap between stations in the dense (and getting far denser) Scott Street corridor.

All good points though the chance of this being built while very small is greater than the phase three which must be approaching zero.