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Ottawa Can Get Back to Amazing Transit.

Redemption for a once great transit city?

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Reece
Nov 06, 2025
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Earlier this year I read Cervero’s The Transit Metropolis and was reminded that Ottawa was once really seen as a transit model. The combination of various busways, a city sized such that traffic congestion wasn’t catastrophic for the buses, and yet demand was sufficient that there were a number of solid all night services — something that remains all to…

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