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We keep getting told that more transfers are good for us. Except frequency on the bus network has been cut because the cost of train service exceeds the cost of the previous bus network. Poor frequency = bad transfers = poor rider experience. My neighbourhood now requires two transfers to...

The city is broke. The trains are proving not to be a cost saver. In fact, since the trains have not been able to meet passenger demand since January, we are spending more on stop gap buses just to somewhat maintain what the Transitway used to deliver. And that all means that resources are...

The city underestimated the cost of the project originally and the province punished the city for cancelling the previous project after the contract was signed. The end result was that the city was covering substantially more than the one third obligation. In order to avoid the cost escalating...

In Ottawa, trains have to slow down for cross overs, so having more is not desirable.

articulated buses never perform well in Ottawa snowstorms.

After a 16 month launch delay, there was enormous pressure from the public to open the line. There were warnings of trouble. The fact that they could not run 15 trains during the test run was a sign. The fact that they had to reset the 12 day trial multiple times, was a warning. There was...

On a sour note, only 6 trains are running this afternoon. This has become catastrophic. They were contracted to provide 15 trains during peak periods.

I hope you are right about Montreal's REM, but don't gloat until we see those trains in operation particularly in winter. Montreal also faces the same climatic challenges as Ottawa and will use similar electrical delivery to the trains.

The CN route went through Algonquin Park and park officials wanted it out of there. That is why that route was abandoned first.

LRT needs proper planning and integration with the bus network. This needs to be done very well or the results will be underwhelming. The pitchforks are out here in Ottawa for the mayor and various officials because of the botched LRT implementation and inadequate bus integration. Many...

We did not have the foresight that private transportation was not sustainable in our cities in the long-term. Congestion was inevitable. This is a reflection of democratic society that has such a short planning cycle. And the ultra-democratic and anti-socialist United States is why that...

I have a Presto card here in Ottawa and loved that I could go to Toronto and use it there without any hassle.

At this point, the media sometimes is under reporting the problems. I am sorry but this is not normal delays. When they have not been able to run the originally planned 15 trains on even one day since the system opened on September 14th, there are problems. I did a survey on the Ottawa...

LRT cannot handle grades? How did streetcars run up Nanny Goat hill on Somerset Street for 60 years? Doesn't Bank Street also face the same grade change?. In fact, Bank Street continues to go uphill until near Walkley Road (this is why this area was once known as Ridgemont), and much of...

A Bank Street subway could be extended along the south east Transitway from Billings Bridge to South Keys and then extended to the airport along the currently under construction airport spur. This would provide one seat ride from the airport to downtown. This would also allow us to avoid the...

The likelihood of reaching capacity on the Confederation Line depends on build out at Bayview and Lebreton Flats and whether the condo boom downtown continues. It is true that the federal government has been diversifying its locations in Ottawa, but this creates other transit problems that have...

Speed and frequency will make a big difference in who will choose to use the train service. In the past, we have only improved highway infrastructure and naturally most people use private vehicles. If we improve rail infrastructure sufficiently, there is no reason not to believe that we will...

Ottawa is still feeling the repercussions of the 2006 cancellation. It was not just that one line being cancelled. The whole Transportation Master Plan was thrown out. What we are ending up with is an extremely expensive skeleton of the original transit plan. The city will be paying for this...

Why my comment about 'value engineering' and the design of Phase 2? Did we wisely buy trains suitable for this climate? Certainly, we purchased a brand new model and we are effectively debugging the design at the expense of Ottawa transit riders. Did we buy enough trains? The original...

If what I have bolded happens, a good portion of city council and the mayor will be kicked out of office at the next election. If LRT reliability does not improve substantially, existing politicians will be blamed for the degree of 'value engineering' that went into the project, which has left...