OTTAWA – After years of waiting and billions of dollars spent, ambitious public transit projects are finally ready now that everyone is working remotely.
Trains, buses, and subways across major Canadian cities are now set to take on millions of commuters who no longer require their services, none more than in the nation’s capital.
“I’m happy to announce that major issues with Ottawa’s new LRT have been fixed,” said Ottawa’s Mayor Jim Watson about the $2.1 billion project which was finally open to the public less than a year ago. “We’ll be running empty trains from now until the foreseeable future and continuing on with the Phase 2 worth $4.6 billion, but that won’t be ready until the next pandemic.”
With private and government employees now permanently working from home, Ottawa’s LRT has rebranded as a public art display symbolically representing a mismanaged project that came too late.
“That would have been very, very useful five years ago,” said a federal government employee whose commute changed from 10 km to 10 m in March of this year. “Those few months when the LRT trains were almost working will be fondly remembered if I could remember a time when it wasn’t delayed.”
Fare prices for the commuters who still use the LRT are expected to increase to $2 million per ride.
