People often comment to me that the LRT has been a disaster. Growing up in Scarborough, it was so easy to jump on the Kennedy subway train and zip down to the CNE or Ontario Place or right out to Kipling station to visit my cousin in Etobicoke. I didn’t live during the time when the subway was being built. I only enjoyed the system’s reliability. In Boston, the “T” was never down. I could rely on it to get to Logan Airport any day, any time. However, it too was built many years ago. I can’t imagine the construction of either system was problem free. Now, when trains break down in Toronto or Boston, they have hundreds of trains to use as replacements. In Ottawa, we don’t. We are dealing with the growing pains that people in other cities dealt with decades ago. We will get through this. Our children will never know how challenging it was when the LRT was first being built and run at the same time.
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