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Originally Posted by Ottawan
It would make sense that things here were based on popularity since this was a report on the participatory part of the study. A technical portion is being conducted seperately.
That said, I agree with Uhuniau - not just with today's report, but from the start it seems to have been manufactured to get a very specific result. Considering that fact, it's taking them frustratingly long to get to it.
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Umm, guys, this is a
consultation report. It's not even been prepared by the consultants - it was done by, ahem, consultation sub-consultants.
I would also point out that the early rumours were of a plan to bastardize the Prince of Wales Bridge and turn it into a bus bridge with a bus interchange at ... Bayview - where Ottawa's TMP (carried out in part by the same consultants) had just finished rejecting a BRT-LRT terminus. That they have been forced off this idiotic inclination is no small achievement (well, for Ottawa-Gatineau, anyway).
Reading over the comments, there really is a lot of frustration at the lack of any progress on even simple short term solutions like an O-Train extension to Hull and the way things have developed, like Rapibus going ahead and now recommending LRT in the same corridor (years after an interprovincial strategy was supposed to have been started).
In that vein, I think we also now have a sample of Uhuniau's handwriting:
I don't think there's a lot of choice but to have some kind of loop. Ottawans have to get to points all along the north shore between Chaudière Falls and the Alexandra Bridge (though I think the M-C Bridge should be used) while people from all over Gatineau have to be able to do the same and get into Ottawa. Funnelling everyone who is headed into downtown Ottawa from Gatineau across the river on the west side of downtown will severely overload downtown capacity from the west (which is already constrained by the stupidity of bringing people from the south up the O-Train corridor rather than the Southeast Transitway). An O-Train extension can serve the needs of most Ottawans going to jobs in Hull, but it can't realistically serve the needs of most Gatineauois going to places in Ottawa (which should not be taken as a reason not to do it, just that we can't put an end to STO buses with it alone).
In the governance section, there were a few interesting comments on creating a single transit commission. It was particularly interesting that a number of these comments were in French, which at least suggests that the writers were from Gatineau. It's long been suspected that people on the Quebec side would oppose a combined transit commission, but the results are suggesting otherwise.
As an aside and having read what people wrote on these comment sheets, a few pieces of advice to anyone filling out one of these god-forsaken comment sheets: (1) READ the entire thing before marking anything. That way, if you've got something to say, you can pick the most appropriate place ahead of time to do it. (2) THINK before writing. Don't slap down the first thing that comes to mind. Think about what you're trying to express. Think about how to phrase it. (3) PRINT - and I mean print, not write - legibly. Stay between the lines. If you can sit down to write, do so.
If your writing is more than a little difficult to read, it will be ignored, especially in the scanned/copied versions. If it is ranty or incoherent, it will also be ignored. That's what I started doing, and I probably have more interest in seeing what people have to say than did the consultants.
In many respects, I think you're better off with online submissions since it can be done at your leisure, allowing you to better develop and express your thoughts. Handwriting issues are avoided, and space is less likely to be a constraint.
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