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Recently I found an old slide deck from the aughts positing a 35-minute trip from Jane to Kennedy. Evidently they thought they were...

Like this: I made this crude knock-up 12 years ago and I believe it's posted somewhere in this endless thread. I was not listened to as...

Kind of have to raise a caveat here. Platform screen doors have been costed out at a million dollars a door to retrofit lines 1 and 2 I...

Perhaps, given the name, at least 1% of the materials could have been, you know, blue.

I'm not sure how I feel about the 100% uniformity of materials on the tower portion. Feels like it's missing something.

There is no real need to widen the bridge in the future. It's already five tracks wide. With the OL on the rail embankment, there is...

Correct. Connections to YUL would be useful to people in both Ottawa and Quebec city. Connections to Pearson via HSR are less obvious...

Yes, the existing tunnel to the platforms could be extended, but VIA controls access to it. You could extend it to the eastbound LRT...

There are a number of white bar signals in Ottawa, used for transit priority/queue jump situations. There's one at Albert and Lyon to...

That doesn't really make much sense, although it could be done. All VIA passengers are at grade level, and the fare gates are as well...

The elevated approach is feasible. A tunnel would take almost exactly the same route. Anyone care to Photoshop an elevated guide-way...

I think the park will be used a lot by staff and less-sick patients of the hospital. How many hospitals have access to a park at front...

Yes, the huge report document confirms there's an elevator at the Preston Plaza. The courts are replacing this facility which...

I do sort of wonder what will happen to that VIA track post-HSR. By 2040 some sort of regional line between Alexandria and Ottawa with...

wow amazing I'll be spending a lot of time on here thank you!