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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
At least Rideau is a wide corridor for surface LRT. Bank Street?? We would have to eliminate all curbside parking to even consider it.
There is not enough density on either street to possibly consider subways.
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Not as long as we keep freaking the fluck out about density and killer condos and dead vitamin-D deprived children, anyway.
We need to tie our transportation and land-use planning more tightly together. If they could capture, for a term, a portion of the increase in tax revenue that can be directly attributed to real transit development, the private sector would likely be interested in PPP real transit development in Canadian cities.
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By the way, it is miracle that we are going to have even a short subway for a city this size. Unless everybody suddenly switches to transit because of some horrendous economic calamity, it will be a long, long time before a second subway is built.
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And it's likely to be in Orleans before it's in any downtown neighbourhood (not including the CBD) because only the burbs deserve real transit in ass-backwards Ottawa.
But how about those awesome overcrowded 40-foot buses w00t w00t! It feels so awesome to be able to donate artic-allocations to suburban express routes. Every time I have to stand the whole 5 km from home to work on an overcrowded downtown route, I just think of the Kanatan and Barrhavener who I've donated a seat to, and I stop thinking of how hard it is for me to actually stand on a sardine-packed 40-foot tube being driven by an imbecile lead-footed driver in stop-and-go traffic.
Yay Ottawa.