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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
I am trying to find a way to facilitate putting 20,000 or 25,000 residents on the former Rockcliffe Air base property. I don't see a bus route allowing that. I also don't see a bus route oriented towards the Confederation Line delivering good service. What you gain with the speed of the Confederation Line, you lose in making passengers travel in the opposite direction from their desired travel line in order to reach it.
Yes, it would be ideal to have something travelling along Montreal Road but it is so narrow through Vanier and there are so many traffic signals that I don't know whether you can choose anything other than a subway through Vanier. That isn't going to happen because of the cost.
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It's also not going to happen because rapid transit, in Ottawa, is only for suburbanites.
The only neighbourhoods in the older urban core which are now slated to gets LRT stations, are those which are incidental to getting LRT service from the CBD to the outer suburbs.
"Urban" transit in urban Ottawa means buses, and will continue to mean buses for the next 150 years. Even modest improvements to bus service in the core are decades away; basic things like signal priority. And god forbid you suggest that more runs of more downtown routes use artics... that standard of service is reserved for suburbanites, too. The rest of us peasants can stand.
There is no urban transit vision in Ottawa, only a suburban one.
If we're going to build a streetcar east of downtown, it should be on the Rideau-Montreal axis.