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Nac Mac Feegle said:
With Orleans, you can also include Clarence-Rockland and Plantagenent. That adds another 25-30k to the number of Orleans shoppers.
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jbeck5 said:
Google map the locations. You'll see every extremity has one, except Orleans.

The Ottawa area(inside the greenbelt) has 3 Costco's (one being a business center).

Outside the greenbelt, there are 3 suburbs of over 100k. You have Kanata/Stittsville. You have Barrhaven. You have Orleans.

2/3 have Costco's. Orleans doesn't.

It's only logical that Orleans gets one.

Saying Orleans doesn't need one because Gloucester has one is like saying Barrhaven doesn't need one because Nepean has one...except they built one in Barrhaven and it's doing very well. They must have more than Orleans population to justify the Costco? Wrong. Only 100k residents. Significantly less than Orleans.

Trim/Innes would be a wonderful spot and would also service the 30,000 people from Clarence-Rockland to add to the 140,000 residents in Orleans.


I wouldn't doubt it. And 5 lanes going in and out while the 174 has 1 lane going each way half the time.
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Bjornar Moxnes said:
Well, Ottawa is literally a city, so... Every other Canadian and American city at least has a higher population density than non-city state countries.
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Ottawa is more of a region.

Ottawa in terms of land, is bigger than the city of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary put together.

I always use this as my example of why a city with such a low population density is limited in how effective public transportation can be. It's either too costly to have buses going to every nook and cranny every 10 minutes...and having one bus come by every 30 minutes to serve thousands of people isn't efficient.

You either get affordable and inefficient or efficient and bankrupting the city.

That's why Ottawa, being so spread out, should worry about road infrastructure, at least on the outer end, more so than hyper focusing on public transit. I'm hijacking the thread, but express buses coming to Orleans and dropping you off downtown was WAY quicker and more efficient than trying to take a local bus to place dorleans to then take a bus to Blair to then get on a rail. Wtf were politicians thinking? Ottawa doesn't have the population density or the money in their coffers to make this project work.
 

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jbeck5 said:
Ottawa is more of a region.

Ottawa in terms of land, is bigger than the city of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary put together.

I always use this as my example of why a city with such a low population density is limited in how effective public transportation can be. It's either too costly to have buses going to every nook and cranny every 10 minutes...and having one bus come by every 30 minutes to serve thousands of people isn't efficient.

You either get affordable and inefficient or efficient and bankrupting the city.

That's why Ottawa, being so spread out, should worry about road infrastructure, at least on the outer end, more so than hyper focusing on public transit. I'm hijacking the thread, but express buses coming to Orleans and dropping you off downtown was WAY quicker and more efficient than trying to take a local bus to place dorleans to then take a bus to Blair to then get on a rail. Wtf were politicians thinking? Ottawa doesn't have the population density or the money in their coffers to make this project work.
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Isn't Ottawa mostly just rural or forestry? Like only a small portion of the region even has buildings.
 
Stylizer1 said:
Is the Yukon hotter than anywhere else in Canada? Here in Ottawa we get shitty humidity.
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I think it's likely colder than the rest of Canada, but having lived here all my life we seem to get a lot more hot weather in the summer and more humid. My time in BC and Alberta in the summer tells me AC is a necessity there much of the time, but depends on tolerance I guess. I can't stand being in a house that's +25 type territory. So uncomfortable. I can't imagine living in a place like Kelowna without it with high 30's regularly. There was a time you wouldn't have been able to buy one here and would have been laughed at for desiring it. Maybe I'm just getting older and more intolerant lol, but making sure I have whole home air conditioning is a top priority when I upgrade my heating system, so I've been looking at heat pumps. I don't want to double down on another oil furnace and continue with the liability of 1000 liters of oil in my yard. Propane I would consider, but a changeover to that is more than half the price of a heat pump install and panel upgrade after rebates, and you don't get the AC with it, so a heat pump really feels like a no brainer in general. A mini split for at least just the upstairs could work too.

Ironically, I keep my house cold in the winter. Thermostat is usually 13-17 and I wear slippers and a wearable blanket much of the time. I get a lot of comments that it is cold. Maybe I'm just cold blooded.
 
jbeck5 said:
Ottawa is more of a region.

Ottawa in terms of land, is bigger than the city of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary put together.

I always use this as my example of why a city with such a low population density is limited in how effective public transportation can be. It's either too costly to have buses going to every nook and cranny every 10 minutes...and having one bus come by every 30 minutes to serve thousands of people isn't efficient.

You either get affordable and inefficient or efficient and bankrupting the city.

That's why Ottawa, being so spread out, should worry about road infrastructure, at least on the outer end, more so than hyper focusing on public transit. I'm hijacking the thread, but express buses coming to Orleans and dropping you off downtown was WAY quicker and more efficient than trying to take a local bus to place dorleans to then take a bus to Blair to then get on a rail. Wtf were politicians thinking? Ottawa doesn't have the population density or the money in their coffers to make this project work.
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How does one hijack an off-topic thread?

The day we can get rid of the NCC the better. Keep them around for preserving old buildings but get them out of the real estate of the city. Both the east and west parkways should be redesigned as alternatives to the Queensway. Why going west is it 4 lanes but going east it is 2? Hopefully once the bridge is built we will see it expanded.

The green belt is such a waste of space. It had a purpose 80 years ago but times have changed and all it is doing is creating city sprawl. I'm not for developing all of it because a lot of food comes from there but most of it or a at least a good portion is soybean and grain corn. Allow development along the LRT for starters. We need more Farms growing food for local stores and those should be prioritized over Corn and soy.
 
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