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Getting HFR off the ground is the starting point for improving passenger rail service. The success of HFR may present other opportunities in the future. In the meantime, an improved bus model is the way to go to build up ridership.

They have to do this otherwise longer dwell times at stations would make the trains even more crowded.

The shopping centre itself is supposed to be intensified at some point. There is a master plan for this. Much of the land on the south side of Billings Bridge is flood plain and historically has been flooded many times. The two small office buildings near the river are subject to periodic...

The river is as much as 40 feet deep on a line from the north end of Bank Street, possibly more than 100 feet deep north of Entrance Bay.

Only Ottawa would introduce a new rail service and reduce service on many connecting bus routes at the same time. Don't they understand that ridership does not grow if they are reducing service frequency?

Moose was never credible. My position is that any proposal that saves the bridge from further deterioration, including a multi-use trail, preserves the bridge for the potential return of rail service. I don't see north shore intercity rail service to Montreal returning, when we already...

Somebody said that a person pushed the door button after the doors had closed. This caused the doors to re-open and go into fault. The problem here is that this happened at Bayview Station where the interconnection is with Line 2. On Line 2, you have to push the button to open the doors. If...

That has been another major concern, Canada Day. The C-Line needs to prove reliable when stressed. Failure at 10:30 p.m. on Canada Day can't happen.

I think this is your point about single choke point, which applies to non-downtown bus routes as well. Ottawa is in trouble as it cannot run enough trains to run the subway efficiently and reliably, a serious miscalculation. There was also a serious error in assumptions made about Tunney's...

Yes, they were unsuccessful at running 15 trains because of unreliability problems. Obviously, when running only 13 trains, trains will be more crowded than desired. They are using an excuse of only 'needing' 13 trains to hide the reliability problems. At present, 13 is the maximum number of...

The door sensors have been known to be problematic for months. Somebody broke a door holding it open. We are hearing that doors are closing before everybody exits the train particularly at the University of Ottawa.

Maybe I am wrong, but isn't VIA also piggybacking on an Amtrak order to get a better price?

The plan is to use another bridge closer to downtown to bring LRT across the river. Bayview is a problem because it is too far west of downtown and it would require Ottawa taxpayers to provide trains for Gatineau residents. There is a lot of politics involved in providing the highway link...

Hurdman Station is elevated to allow an under-station roadway access (included in station design) from south to north, which will enable the area surrounding the station to be developed in the future.

Makes sense to me.

Let's remember that hundreds of drivers received a pink slip last fall. What would you do under those circumstances if you received a pink slip? You would be looking for another job. I am sure many drivers found other jobs and left. Who would be interested in a job that was likely to only...

It was forced attrition because any new hires were only to be very short term and therefore very people were interested. The city has spent a fortune in over-time to make up for the shortage of drivers and is trying to get that extra money back from RTG because of the delay in opening caused...

Feeder buses are only being minimally upgraded. The city is overextended on Phase1 and the now under construction Phase 2, and operational savings are being directed towards paying financing costs. The last I heard was that hundreds of drivers were to be laid off presumably in early October.

Yes, the last upgrade was so badly botched, that trains routinely have to slow to a crawl at one of the passing locations.

Yes, but the Ottawa condo market is not big enough to support it, especially when the Lebreton and Bayview properties are still mostly vacant and don't require this additional expense of building a platform underneath. The trench in question is quite long and the Phase 2 extension will require...