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^Well the original philosophy on the existing O-Train was strictly as a low-cost pilot project. It uses diesel-powered cars (DMUs) and operates along an existing and little-used (if at all?) rail corridor. A more robust and serious undertaking of rail transit in Ottawa was actually supposed to have been up and running by now. City Council approved the project in 2006, but after the election later that year, the project was cancelled. The problem was that some contracts for the project had already been signed, and the city ended up having to pay out for at least a few things, including a portion of the cancelled order of LRT cars.

Anyway, Ottawa actually has one of the best BRT systems on the Americas, but the limitations of that system have been reached and the transition to LRT is now seen as the solution along some of the corridors.