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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
The short answer is.. they won't. We have committed all our resources, both financial and political, into building an urban transit system for the least urban parts of the city. And we have built political institutions that are overtly anti-urban. Four years of O'Brien and now too many years of Watson Club in charge are baking anti-urbanity into the fabric of Ottawa even more than it already was before (and it was bad before.)
And transit, more and more, gets relegated in the priority whenever we rebuild any of our main streets, and is treated as expendable.
Increasingly, if you're in Ottawa, and you want to be urban, your best bet is going to be to move to a city that knows and thinks it's a city, and acts like it.
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The odd fixation on bike lanes over transit shows how clued out our planners and leaders are. Somebody read somewhere that bike lanes mean urban, as in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. They forgot to turn the page in
My First Book of Urban Planning to note that lively urban places prioritize transit first, in subways, streetcars, etc.