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Originally Posted by Richard Eade
Yeah. The O-Train in Ottawa was not designed to move people quickly (or conveniently). Remember, Mayor Chiarelli went to great pains to stress that the ‘R’ in LRT stands for ‘RAIL’, NOT ‘RAPID – as it did in BRT. Ottawa’s O-Train was planned for cost saving. The move to trains as trunk-line vehicles was supposed to move more people in each vehicle (with a single operator). It is the ultimate extension of the idea that moving more people with fewer resources make a transit system more efficient, and, thus, cheaper to run.
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The biggest motivation was not cost savings. Not sure why this myth persists. Has everybody forgotten the bus conga lines through the core? The system was going to collapse if it kept trying to put more and more buses through the downtown core.
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