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A couple of things I want to point out: 1. The immediate focus is on the Gatineau LRT (via Portage) and Stage 3 to Kanata/Barrhaven -- whether that's stupid is best saved for another discussion. The Prince of Wales bridge is still officially viewed by both cities as a future secondary rail...

In terms of actual LRT projects proposed in any of the city's transit plans, a "fifth" LRT line would be an at-grade line running down Carling between Lincoln Fields and Dow's Lake. It's in the 2013 TMP but a formal study hasn't been started yet. I think we're all waiting to see what, if...

I don't know anything about the engineering that would be required, but I think that's a lot more straightforward than it sounds! I think the biggest thing would be the trench widening from the Dow's Lake tunnel to Beech Street since that would require a lot of rock blasting. I could see it...

The new hospital will be located at Dow's Lake. I don't think it has anything to do with the general hospital, or that transportation corridor.

I don't know why so many newer concepts for a Bank Street line decide that Billings Bridge is a sensible terminus. It's even weirder to me when one of the ones I've seen recently took a diagram I made a few years ago and just cropped it at Billings.. I disagree because the SE Transitway...

It was an election stunt in support of McKenna. Planners from both city still maintain that the bridge could still be used as a secondary rail link in the future.

It would be odd for them to abandon all of their trackage while maintaining any kind of service. IMO CN is probably going to leave town, but I think there's a high likelihood that a short line will move in. They already use VIA's tracks to get to/from Coteau, so there wouldn't be much change...

The STO has been pretty clear that they have no intention of asking Ottawa to pay for any part of it. IIRC the Quebec government has already "promised" to fund 60% of it.

The new trains for the Trillium Line were procured this way too, which was actually what I was mainly thinking of.

Well that's just it, isn't it? There wasn't any real reason to not pick Alstom back in 2012. Maybe it's also worth noting that Alstom isn't a partner in RTG, they're subcontracted to. This was what they did for Stage 2. Maybe it's because it was lowballed, but a train 2/3 the length still...

If you haven't read it before, it's definitely worth reading through the list of issues that the line was facing leading up to the notice of default back in March. There's infrastructure involved, but Alstom has been a serious disappointment on both the vehicles themselves as well as the...

Again, no one is saying that those are just teething issues. But the "witch hunt" started even before the teething issues. We're at a point where a lot of people refuse to even believe that sun kinks are a normal occurrence in the summer thanks in part to shoddy coverage of the issue. Case in...

Computer problems, door problems, and sun kinks are all normal teething issues and even just regular occurrences in railways. But you wouldn't be able to tell that from the Ottawa public's reaction! Plus the public perception that these trains don't/couldn't work at all in winter conditions...

A lot of people are criticizing the LRT over being unable to operate at normal speeds in hot weather (by next Tuesday we'll have had 6 straight days of 30+ weather) because I guess that means "it'll only be able to run for 2 months out of the year haha", but this isn't a whole lot different than...

This is a bad take. Even without getting into the technicalities, do you think if it was possible to just expand Bayview Station itself they'd even bother proposing another 1km tunnel through the downtown core? Expanding the station sounds like it'd be a lot simpler not to mention cheaper as...

Bridge (and even tunnel) options were considered, all were rejected.

This morning the STO presented its two alignment proposals for bringing the Gatineau LRT into Ottawa and connecting with the O-Train. http://www.sto.ca/index.php?id=837&L=en&source=sto_mobile&utm_source=site+STO&utm_medium=Image+rotative&utm_campaign=Analyses_insertion_Ottawa The proposals are...

I admit I know nothing about Calgary's People Mover, but the Trillium Line isn't set to re-open until 2022 which is what I was trying to note ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

By 2022*