Ottawa LRT

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The article also mentions a savings of ~$15 million due to driver layoffs (worked out with the union) due to the removal of not only express routes - a very familiar Ottawa feature to me - but also due to the efficiency gains (8:1) of LRT over articulated buses along that route. The express system should save a bunch in its destruction; paying a driver to come in for 3 horus in the morning and then to sleep for 5-6h before doing another brief evening express shift was an issue the city had with the union in at least their second most recent strike.

Here, I'm curious how many driver and bus hours will immediately be removed once we align the iXpress (and 7?) to ION, and what fraction of that will be redeployed.