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Toronto is making the same mistake as Ottawa. They open the line without it being optimized. This turns everybody off. How can it take an hour to go less than 11 km? You would expect much better performance in a seperate transit lane. After seeing what has happened here in Ottawa...

So true. The trains on both lines are still too slow and station dwell times are too long. If trip times are too long, it wears on passengers over time. In Ottawa, I still marvel about how slow trains are near Hurdman. With common trains, it would be interesting to compare Ottawa Line 1...

If you read streetcar history in Ottawa, the federal government never wanted streetcars and their wires in front of Parliament. Why a change of heart, I don't get it. If anybody has been to Ottawa on Canada Day, Wellington is the worst place for rail transit. Running surface rail in downtown...

Wellington is an awful location for rail. Any major celebration or protest will interrupt service. This is unacceptable. We just moved STO buses off of Wellington to Albert and Slater. At least buses can be moved if Wellington was blocked, which happened in the past

The answer to the question is no. Line 2 is designed to maximize a service disruption measured in years to implement double tracks on rhe busiest portion of the Line North of South Keys. This is so disappointing for someone who lives nearby. I also wish that a Metrolinx upload would spur the...

Totally agree. At a time when we are about to embark on nation building projects including Alto, why would we consider contrarians in Quebec and Alberta? Canada greatly benefits from standing together. Splintering will just suck us into the Trump chaos even more . As a result, I strongly...

While I am sympathetic concerning the worries of PS workers relating to federal cutbacks, I am aware of completely empty federal buildings both downtown and elsewhere in Ottawa. We are also aware that downtown foot traffic and transit usage has not recovered from the pandemic. This has...

Sure, Ottawa residents would like more direct international flights. That has never been in the cards with our location between Toronto and Montreal. The next best thing is to fly via Montreal. If rail was reliable, people would use it. As I have already said, why would we delete the...

A lot of Ottawa residents fly internationally via Montreal. The current VIA service does not allow a significant number of those to travel by rail. Why would we plan Alto to not allow for that possibility? It seems a natural. Why would we delete a station at Dorval that exists today? The...

If Revenue Service testing is starting, unless serious problems are found, public opening should not be far off. When we saw this here in Ottawa for Line 2 late last year, opening came a couple of months later. This is good news.

7 I don't know about this especially with Line 2 and 4 being diesel trains. The O-Train moniker goes back 2001 when the first line opened. There are all kinds of different terms used because they kept changing the names of the lines so you hear all different versions.

This will never be built as federal workers continue to work from home and public service management does not challenge this to any degree. There are claims that federal workers have no offices to work in while many federal buildings are empty. It boggles the mind but the public service is a...

A lot of Ottawa residents go to Montreal for international flights. It is much preferred to Pearson. Going forward, a Dorval station is critical. With Alto, rail to plane will grow substantially from Ottawa but if we skip Dorval in long-term plans, we are shooting ourselves in the foot. I...

I have visited the three new southern stations. The lack of timed transfers is adding tremendously to travel times. I have spoken to a number of people, and the 'new ways to bus' is doubling traveling times or worse for some customers at these new stations. None of these new stations provide...

Express buses used to run on Main and Colonel By until the Transitway opened back in the 1980s. When they rebuilt Main Street with cycle tracks, bus lanes are no longer possible.