Ottawa LRT

[jeffster]

Pretty much that is exactly what they were saying. Not that I disagree that dedicated lines that do not share roads are a good idea because it is better if you can do that. It was their cocky cockiness regarding the superiority of their system over the Ion that was annoying. At least our system isn't half-baked.

I've ridden their LRT, I'd hardly call the system half-baked. The stations are very well-built and most aspects show excellent quality; with the exception of the trains, which worked well around the time of my visit at New Year's but seem to have intermittent problems at other times. I don't know what the 'cockiness' was that you speak of; certainly the train issues are humbling, but I don't see why we need to rub it in their faces.

Right, their system (stations and completely dedicated lines) are better than the Ion. Their trains, which are 90% of the importance of the system, sort of suck, as riders have realized. Good dedicated lines and nice stations don't help this, at all.

The cockiness I speak of is when their officials were comparing our system to theirs, since they had a similar target date for launch of service, and they had nothing good to say of the Ion. It was their cockiness rubbing it into our faces of our crappy Ion system. As for some of us here calling out their cockiness, I am 99% sure that 99.9999% of the Ottawa users and management and other O-Train workers have no clue of what is being written here. There might be 3 or 4 Ottawa citizens looking at this thread and thinking one of 2 things: This cocky cock calling out so-called cocky cocks has no idea what he's talking about and the others are saying "damn right he is".