tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218149071529011844.post3983035789924807595..comments2024-03-09T05:03:54.979-05:00Comments on Public Transit in Ottawa: Naqvi, part four: The Cancelled North-South LinePeter Raaymakershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10883553886241429786noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218149071529011844.post-35261310866226826272009-08-13T09:38:48.577-04:002009-08-13T09:38:48.577-04:00The real cruel joke is that we are planning to con...The real cruel joke is that we are planning to convert the Transitways at an enormous price tag, provide less frequent service with little or no improvement in the speed of service, adding transfers to most riders' trips, and generating little or no new ridership. It is looking more and more like we are going to blow up the Transitway bus system, then rebuild new parallel transitways (eg. Hurdman-Innes Transitway) to recreate it, again at additional cost. What sense does this all make?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218149071529011844.post-23692213654627003342008-07-14T22:47:00.000-04:002008-07-14T22:47:00.000-04:00Visionary?! What a cruel joke.Sure, we might have ...Visionary?! What a cruel joke.<BR/><BR/>Sure, we might have had trains - if you can call a single railcar a "train" - running next spring, but they wouldn't be carrying too many people. The downtown would still be full of buses, the vast majority of current and future transit users would still be on buses for their entire trip and the cost of operating the system would still be spiralling out of control.<BR/><BR/>This so-called "visionary" project would have unnecessarily put an end to the only rail service we have for 3 years, it would duplicate much of the Southeast Transitway when the much cheaper option of just converting the latter was not even considered, and it wouldn't even have gone to Hurdman, which at least would have opened up the possibility of removing all buses from downtown Ottawa, starting us on the path to actually converting the entire system to light rail (the money saved by converting the SE Transitway could have funded the extra length to Hurdman). Now that would have been visionary... but that project as conceived?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com