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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
Both Montreal-Rideau and Bank are fixable with surface transit. Just needs some tough choices to be made (giving up road space).
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There's the rub: road space will never be given up in Ottawa, at least not on anything less than three-lanes-both-directions.
So, we've taken higher-order transit solutions off the table for the urban area; we've taken lower-order transit solutions off the table for the urban area; and all we are left with is slow buses in mixed traffic with congestion issues that there is likewise no political will to solve (because it would offend suburban automobilists), but with the urban-area property taxpayer still paying their pro-rata share to extend LRT and BRT further and further out into the suburbs.
This is not a recipe for an urban success story. It's setting in motion a century of urban decline.
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