08-29-2018, 03:22 PM
(08-29-2018, 02:53 PM)jamincan Wrote: Burying under downtown is also arguably one of the sole reasons they embarked on the LRT conversion. The system worked reasonably well out in the suburbs. It was an nightmare downtown, even when I lived there 20 years ago. Ottawa didn't really have a choice but to bury it.
A big part of that is that the city designed seemingly every route to go along that buried stretch. They were very big fans of the transfer-less system, where you could hop on a bus at the end of your obscure cul-de-sac in Kanata or Orleans, and get delivered 20+ kilometers to Tunney's Pasture, where countless government employees work. A single-transfer system might have bought them a lot more time.