Christof Spieler

This book is very well organized with lots of photos, and it contains a series of excellent mini-articles at the beginning that explain what makes a city a good transit city. I didn’t have much time with this book because of library deadlines, but I read the sections pertaining to Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa (all cities I know well), and they seemed fairly accurate in their descriptions of the systems and how they have been expanded over the years. That said, the bit about Ottawa didn’t seem to go into much detail (if any, based on my quick read) about the litany of derailments, cracked wheels, and service outages the LRT has had since its launch. The provincial television network TVO has a good summary: https://www.tvo.org/article/ottawas-colossal-lrt-debacle-a-brief-ish-history… (meer)