Regional and Intercity Bus\Rail Transportation

[CityTech]

Rockland and Russell/Embrun have municipal transit agencies that seem to be doing well enough.. it seems like the Russell one is somewhat precarious but the Rockland one looks to be in good shape. If those townships could be convinced to actually fund the service properly and the province stepped in to solve issues related to fare integration, I think transit out there could have a go. Thanks to the way Ottawa is distributed, with the urban area going further west than east, Rockland and Russell aren't actually as far out of the city as one would think. Rockland is actually about the same distance to downtown as Stittsville is! And those areas are developing alright enough... notably, in Russell all the new subdivisions are within the town and reasonably dense, as opposed to places like Kemptville where new development is acre lots on backroads.

But when it comes to place like Kemptville and Carleton Place that are much further beyond the city, where there's no public transit, and where development is not being done well, then yes, the province should absolutely clip their growth. It was a mistake twinning the 7 out to Carleton Place; they should have twinned the 17 to Rockland instead.

Heck, there might even be a solid case to expand Ottawa's municipal borders to include Russell and Clarence-Rockland.