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The following video explains extremely well the mess that Ottawa has created for itself over the last 20 years. Every time I have used OC Transpo in the last few years, I have had complaints about the service.

They continue to find an infinite list of reasons to shut down Line 1. This is better than the Transitways they tossed out? I know, I know, the Transitway was beyond capacity, until we got so many people to abandon transit because Line 1 has never been reliable in over 5 years of service.

There better be sufficient numbers of operators when this goes live, regardless of holiday weekends

Perfect but not perfect, on Saturday, many runs were cancelled on Line 4 because of a shortage of operators. Not deemed to be a flaw with the trains, which is fair enough,

Can you tell us what was said? I have met PP a few times but never spoke on this topic.

The naming of LRT stations in Ottawa is highly political. It gets so bizarre that there are arguments whether a name is English or French, there are slight variations of indigenous names, names are adopted that relate to a place a considerable distance from the station and station names used...

8 to 10 weeks assuming nothing crops up. That brings us to mid September to the start of October. No commitment to an opening date nor a final testing period.

I am sure they are trying all sorts of scenarios, however, they also have to demonstrate that the trains can follow the proposed schedule. This has to occur before the final live testing period can start.

What is the basis of this assessment? I watched the trains at South Keys today, which I consider the weak point of the line, because the track is shared by both Line 2 and 4. What I saw did not build confidence. They were running trains on both lines, but they were unable to operate either...

No, of course not. They are testing trains at the moment. Summer 2024??? The previous spring opening is not likely happening, at least not April.

Trillium Line 2 going south

This will be of interest to this discussion concerning the New York Central Railway that formerly ran between Ottawa and Tupper Lake, New York with connection to New York City. http://www.gloucesterhistory.com/Historic Gloucester Volume 21 No 3.pdf

There is role for regional rail which is designed to serve areas beyond the reasonable reach of LRT or subways. At some distance, LRT and subways are too slow as the number of stations grows higher and higher the further out you go. The challenge is that our traditional railways are privately...

We will never see additional service outside the corridor unless a business case can show that the service can operationally at least break even. The first step is to prove HFR can accomplish this. Additional rail service must also have provincial backing with a contribution towards at least...

Is the train actually going to Cochrane?

Totally agree. The biggest part of the problem is allowing 'experts' who didn't know Ottawa to make critical decisions and Ottawa City Council not questioning those recommendations. The decision to not replace the Walkley overpass to allow double tracking means that the problem of lack of...

The key part of the headline is 'at least' What city closes a rapid transit line for 4 years? I guess Toronto has started this process with the SRT. One other thing is that monthly payments are going up by 500% for Line 2.

Carling BRT is designated LRT in the Ottawa Transportation Master Plan and ran eastward from the Confed Line to the Trillium Line, not westward to Kanata. Barrhaven Town Centre is already being intensfied, and the Transitway going there already grade separated. Fallowfield is a Park n Ride...

Or when HFR becomes so successful, that the increase in traffic justifies a bypass as a way to increase passenger traffic even more. In other words, the Montreal express trains become a further add-on to frequency. I don't see this happening any time soon. The initial focus is make HFR as...

Maybe local trains could stop in Smith's Falls going to Kingston and express trains stop in Perth