Ottawa LRT

[Markster]

There's no point really to having low-floor LRV's when you're never doing step-on/step-off and all the stations are dedicated and the entire line is totally separated (not a single crossing of any type).

I do recommend one day visiting the parts of town where LRT is intended to run at grade, with level crossings. Stuff that was planned in the initial, cancelled North-South LRT plan.

Down in Barrhaven, the LRT is intended to cross the Strandherd Bridge, and then peel off Strandherd Rd to run down the centre of Chapman Mills Dr. Since LRT isn't going to be extended down there for quite a while, they've built a centre median busway in the interim.

There are no rails to see now, but it's an interesting exercise in imagining what is to come in 30 years.