Canadian LRT/RT projects U/C

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It doesn't even really serve that function well though. There's no bus loop or waiting facilities to accommodate it as a transfer point, or even really much bus traffic to the location at all (most buses converge on Blair). And for the bus passengers who may still use the station, it's not an enviable environment for a wait of any length. It highlights how Ottawa has managed to both spend a lot on its system, yet still cheap out on some pretty basic elements of customer convenience, comfort, and dignity. It's beautiful, cathedral-like stations that don't protect passengers from rain or sleet. It's multi-million dollar stations without nearby crosswalks. It's Montreal Rd station being designed to apparently facilitate neither walk-up, drive-up, or bus transfer passengers respectably.

Don't get me wrong, it's a necessary project and we'd have been fools not to pursue it. I can even live with the alignment. But the execution seems to so fail again and again in considering its users. Not everywhere, but in too many places and obvious ways for an investment this significant.