Who should be taking the bus

Point from Ken Gray:

The car should be the last resort for students travelling to Algonquin. That was the choice of their parents. Across the street from the campus is the major Transitway station for the area.

Sure some rural students might need to take a car to campus (and even they don't have to if a Park-and-Ride lot has space), but there is little excuse for urban dwellers to take their autos.

Counterpoint from Evan Thornton:

Downtown Ottawa provides well for its automobile users; dozens of parking facilities like the one above add up to provide a ratio of three spots to every ten jobs in the area. By contrast, Algonquin has parking for 3000, for a total student population of 16,000. That's three spots for sixteen people, not even counting the staff who also share in the spots. Yes, some crowd the side streets and some abuse a nearby Park and Ride, but the real story about Algonquin is that the people who find their way there every day seem to do a better job of using public transportation than what we expect of our downtown workforce, who are actually provided with a much wider selection of routes.

Source: http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/greaterottawa/archive/2011/03/22/who-should-be-taking-the-bus.aspx

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