How do you talk a bus off the ledge? If you are the city of Ottawa, Canada, you gently put it out to pasture, where it can spend the rest of its service life taking commuters from their home to the nearest light rail station. There is always something coming along that is bigger, faster, and more efficent. The fact is buses can no longer handle Ottawa's booming population, and believe it or not it was alway in the plan to phase them out. Up until last year, buses roamed the city limits until they simply could not deal with the task any longer. In 2009, there were as many as 300,000 bus riders a day.
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