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I've not been back to this blog list for a while. But having just returned earlier today from a very positive meeting with one of the re-elected mayors in the region, I thought I'd just check in to see where the post-election discussion here has gone. Poor old @kEiThZ evidently has far too much...

Moose Consortium Inc. has posted online several documents relating to the Canadian Transportation Agency's determination relating to the track connecting Ottawa and Gatineau. https://www.letsgomoose.ca/moose-consortium-inc-legal-action-to-protect-essential-railways-in-canadas-capital/ Joseph...

Media releases are issued when there's something important to report. MOOSE and Lemine-Consortia were mutually assessing each other. As indicated in my earlier post, MOOSE chose to sign with another investment management firm. This is a normal trajectory in business. Joseph Potvin Director...

@Charles, MOOSE and Lemine-Consortia exchanged of letters of intent with 120 days for each to learn about the other. That ended after 120 days, and instead Moose Consortium Inc. now has in place a signed contract with a more prominent investment syndication management company oriented to...

It's just nuts! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/14/german-cities-to-trial-free-public-transport-to-cut-pollution https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/26/brussels-to-make-public-transport-free-on-high-air-pollution-days...

@kEiThZ, You've got quotation marks around that. Please identify the source of the quote. Or are you putting forward your parody paraphrase as a quote? ~Potvin

Readers of this forum are welcome to read the draft formal plans and proposals of MOOSE, and our informal responses within this and other fora and media. A few very persistent critics with a lot of time on their hands have made clear their commitment to challenge any notion whatsoever that a...

Exactly. MOOSE would work to achieve 5-minute service on the Trillium Line. Of course double-tracking. But (as the punchline goes): "the lightbulb has to want to change". Joseph Potvin Director General | Directeur général Moose Consortium (Mobility Ottawa-Outaouais: Systems & Enterprises) |...

RE: precedent The timing and wording of Decision R-2018-23 may bring useful clarity to the Omnitrax case: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/omnitrax-canadian-transportation-agency-1.4516977 Joseph Potvin Director General | Directeur général Moose Consortium (Mobility Ottawa-Outaouais...

@Allandale25, Multiple configurations are under discussion with the incumbent railway companies and stakeholders. Also, the network configuration will evolve through the next 25 years, so there is not a single answer. We'll publish details of the initial proposal for consultations when...

@muller877, It's more than that. "The Agency ... may conclude that a railway company has failed to respect that process if the company has (a) removed infrastructure, (b) created physical barriers, or (c) allowed one of its lines to fall into a state of disrepair such that operation of the...

Here is MOOSE Consortium's statement on Agency Decision R-2018-23: https://www.letsgomoose.ca/wp-content/uploads/MediaRelease_MOOSE_AgencyDecision_R-2018-23_PrinceOfWalesBridge_EN_2018-02-20PDF.pdf A few people here have commented on what elements of this decision provide significant...

Like this, for example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz47kauZsx60bWJKWm5ZRGpzQzJsU2dlMVdwYWxxVG9FSE9F/view?usp=sharing Joseph Potvin Director General | Directeur général Moose Consortium (Mobility Ottawa-Outaouais: Systems & Enterprises) | www.letsgomoose.com Consortium Moose (Mobilité...

@kEiThZ, Can you please let us know how that previous $60M upgrade worked out for Ottawa taxpayers and for Trillium Line passengers? Joseph

That 2011-12 case was about the Lachute Sub, and it was not about ownership, it was about jurisdiction. [4] MOOSE requests the following relief from the Agency: A confirmation that the railway infrastructure is under federal jurisdiction by virtue of paragraph 92(10)(a) of the Constitution...

@kEiThZ, 1) How much ridership does MOOSE need to breakeven? You have juxtaposed two factors in your question that make it unanswerable. The PPR business model drives system revenues from value increments amongst participating properties, through their participating station enterprises. In our...

@kEiThZ, Sorry, then in reply, I'll choose to be "evasive" as you call it. I'll reply to others who are interested in conversation without ad hominen attacks and angry sarcasm. Joseph Potvin Director General | Directeur général Moose Consortium (Mobility Ottawa-Outaouais: Systems &...

Seeing as how we're both citizens and taxpayers, and most of the companies of MOOSE Consortium are Ottawa-based companies headed by citizens of Ottawa, your framing of the conversation on this blog is much too unilateral. FWIW, I'll just suggest that what you call bullshit, my colleagues and I...

@kEiThZ, My goodness, you your penchant for parody know no bounds. Do you suggest that for a railway company to expect Section 138 of the Canada Transportation Act to apply to all federal railway companies, including Capital Railway, that this is equivalent to saying "the city should simply plan...