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I really don't understand why Hamilton has been hesitant about LRT even in the suburbs. LRT is a city building project. The reaction in Ottawa is totally the opposite. Despite the early hiccups with Phase 1, Phase 2 and even 3 can't be built fast enough. I guess we have had this hesitation...

The task force could come back with a bunch of small projects that accomplish very little and make the Conservatives look good or it just delays anything from happening for years.

Every boarded up building should have Ford's face painted on it.

And yet another study to spend on nothing concrete. This is the ultimate delay spending tactic, which is something I was counting on from Ford and the Conservatives. .

That is true but I think it goes beyond that. They also overestimated the number of drivers that they could lay off and they under budgeted the switch over to the Confederation Line. The end result is a shortage of both drivers and buses. They dumped surplus buses immediately after the...

Which is now shining the light on the bus system problems and the lack of drivers. Today, the main bus route to Barrhaven had cancelled trips at 2:45, 3:35, 3:45, 4:00, 4:05, 4:15, 4:20, 4:30, 4:45, 4:50, 6:10, 6:15, 6:30 p.m. Looks like they cancelled the last trip on Route 256 this morning...

There are still service interruptions pretty well every day. Door problems last Friday and Saturday, a train had to be taken out of service on Monday (public urination on board), and a shut down of the east end of the line yesterday afternoon.

Why can't these trains operate during a freezing rain event? I understand ION was shut down last weekend.

Doesn't radial mean, routes running out from downtown in various directions. If that is the case, how is the Ontario Line any different? The opposite are cross-connection routes that usually don't serve the downtown area at all. I will give Doug Ford some credit, if we see shovels in the...

Yes, the plan to build a bus tunnel through downtown was never completed. The expected construction period for the tunnel would have occurred during the Mike Harris 'Commonsense Revolution' years when transit capital spending across Ontario came to a halt. It was never seriously considered...

The problems relate to both trains and buses. The end result is that commute times for too many people are significantly longer than before. This is unacceptable. We can't be spending billions to achieve worse service.

You have forgotten that the Trillium Line has been operating since 2001.

Hopefully, the train will become more reliable. People will then stop complaining. I have commented about the lack of redundancy or parallel service, which is a flaw with the current plan. The issue with bus frequency is a bone of contention, and the solutions don't address poor off-peak...

A lot of the problems still relate to the trains as well. There were 6 straight days of train failures, Friday to Wednesday. For some who had time off from Saturday to Monday, this may not seem so bad. We can't have that frequency of train problems when we are funneling such a large portion...

Thankfully I don't have to go downtown regularly. Except in peak hours, it is now a double transfer for me. With unreliable trains and buses, how does one plan such a trip and make each transfer work?

The issue is that the trains are not reliable and the buses are in many cases even less reliable than during the period of LRT construction. This has produced extended commute times. We are not talking about whiners about change., These are widespread complaints about bad service. The public...

You clearly don't live in Ottawa

I expect that Montreal - Quebec will be part of Phase 1 to help with Liberal support in Quebec and to get Bloc support for the proposal I expect all party support except the Conservatives who want to chain us to the oil industry and don't really believe in climate change anyways

I believe part of the current HFR study is how HFR will interact with REM.

I have heard this argument before. However, when we compare the value of REM versus VIA HFR, we need to compare passenger kms instead of just raw passenger numbers. This puts things into better and a more fair perspective.