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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Worth noting is that Ottawa's light rail plan is actually cheaper than Surrey's, despite being grade-separated.
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Ottawa's LRT project is fantastic. It's going to connect the majority of the city with a grade separated LRT. It's actually pretty cheap when you consider that they are getting a tunnel through the majority of downtown Ottawa to go along with it. If you've seen the East/West streets of Ottawa at rush hour its bumper to bumper buses trying to get across the downtown to the transit way at either end. When this is done it will make a drastic improvement in travel times and remove hundreds of noisy, slow buses from the downtown. It's eventally going to connect the whole region and I can see it crossing the river into Gatineau once people see how much of a difference it makes.