Ottawa LRT

[zanate]

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.

I'm going to make some guesses.

• All 200 iXpress bus and driver hours north of Fairview gone (completely gone-- ION will have its own vehicles and workforce)
  
• Route 7 probably unaffected, at least first year or two
  
• GRT might try and use the freed up buses and driver hours to implement expansion at that time. (If it prevents leaving depreciating bus assets sitting idle and needing to lay off drivers, it could be "cheaper" than an expansion requiring new buses and drivers.)
  

Overall, I don't expect the same huge operational savings as Ottawa had, as they had a lot of different bus routes filtering through the core.