in fairness ottawa was fortunate in that the original south north LRT line was an already existing track, all they did was plop a new train on it and build 5 stations, it cost the city only 23 million, that being said i always thought it was the dumbest LRT in the world and literally nobody uses it except students at my school for the two most southern stops, it will compliment the new line to some degree but the existing BRT will really be awesome when combined with that new track
*will say it again, a well designed BRT, such as the one i use everyday instead of my car which now collects dust, is the best solution for a medium sized city, ottawa has a metro of 1.1 mil ppl and only now are the actually putting in LRT (old line doesn't count) and only doing so because they received 1.2 billion in government funds (well bc it is the capital
) to those firmly rooted LRT folks it does not make sense for a city of 700,000 who will probably never receive similar funding to even consider LRT at this point, lets get a better bus system that encourages non public transit riders to start using