Lots of people will tell you that the cost of BRT and then conversion to LRT was astronomically more expensive than if they'd just done Light Rail from the start.
It seems like dynamite on paper, but essentially they're rebuilding the whole thing from scratch. Even the stations are being totally demolished and done over.
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It seems like dynamite on paper, but essentially they're rebuilding the whole thing from scratch. Even the stations are being totally demolished and done over.
Photo Credit: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost...count=2442
Quote:"The issue is that the 1980s-era BRT that is the foundation of the LRT project was sold as cheap-and-easy-to-convert-to-rail, which it was neither. Ottawa ought to have gone with LRT from the beginning, and not wasted so much cash or three decades of city-building."