Ottawa LRT

[Markster]

This is clearly a false equivalence.  If Ottawa was building an LRT system today where nothing existed before (as we are) it would be just as disruptive, if not more.

Ottawa and KW are different situations.  It's okay for different situations to have different impacts.

The Transitway was largely built using
(a) excess space in highway right-of-ways (eastern transitway),
(b) defunct rail corridors (the Scott St trench),
© greenspace corridors (Ottawa River Parkway to Barrhaven) and
(d) reallocation of existing lanes (downtown).  

For better and for worse.  Fewer road construction impacts, but at a price that the Transitway often seems to avoid some destinations as much as it serves others.