nfitz
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?!? Saying that Edmonton has colder winters than Ottawa and that Ottawa has more snow that Edmonton doesn't contradict each other.
Neither fact makes Helsinki (or Moscow) have colder winters than Ottawa.
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Ottawa Transit Developments
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Neither fact makes Helsinki (or Moscow) have colder winters than Ottawa.
lrt's friend
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Ottawa winters and its original light rail system.
steveintoronto
Superstar
Fascinating footage.
And a presage gone wrong:
nickster182
This would have been after the big ice and snow storm of Dec 27-30th 1942 that brought about an inch of freezing rain to Ottawa followed by a foot of snow. It then got quite cold after that which froze the ice solid onto trees, power lines and rail lines. That's why they needed pick axes to get through it. Great video of how we dealt with winter's worst back in our yesteryear!
3 years ago
-: Link above
David Markos
That is beautiful! I'm also glad that we don't have to put up with storms like this nowadays
3 years ago
Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
While who knows if we'll be lucky to get a date like Ion did in Ottawa's update tomorrow, this new ready for rail video just appeared:
Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
Confederation Line is now construction complete, but no exact start date yet. I figure sometime after Canada Day, because they won't want to launch before that even if everything goes well.
Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
They've added a virtual tour of Blair station now. Blair is sort of an oddball, as it leaves large parts of the original station intact, yet now abandoned and inaccessible to the public.
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Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
The 12 day handover test is now go, if this goes well the city will get the keys to the system by the end of May
OCCheetos
Active Member
The 12 day test did not appear to begin today (I guess they only really found out today). Will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow.
Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
of course another snag when the auditor agreed with the city that additional work is required before the test can start. But overall timelines haven't changed, so *soon*
MisterF
Senior Member
I'm a little late to the discussion, but the whole debate about LRVs being appropriate for cold winters seems a little silly to me. There are quite a few cities with colder winters than Ottawa (not just colder overall, but with colder winters) that have streetcars and LRT systems. Like Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. Or Vladivostok, Russia. Or Changchun, China. Central Asia is a place of temperature extremes that rival any Canadian city.
Hopkins123
Senior Member
I'm sure right here at home, Edmonton has colder winters than Ottawa and it's LRT network is still being rapidly expanded out.
steveintoronto
Superstar
^It's not "LRT winter able" or not. It's the design. In all fairness, in this case, it was in reference to the Alstom model supplied, variations of which are indeed in colder and snowier cities than Ottawa.
Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
Actually the whole winter thing really had to do a lot with track clearing. They blithely assumed that the trains could basically be sent out after 30cm snowfalls with no track preparation. These aren't like mainline trains, they don't have their own snowplow built in. Once the track is cleared, the frequency of trains is enough to keep it clear, but if you leave them out in the middle of a snowstorm over night, I'm simply shocked, shocked that they get stuck the next morning.
As for the door jam problem, apparently that's been happening long after the snow melted, Alstom has to fix that up before handover.
Kyle Campbell
Senior Member
I think this is one of my favorite art installations on the line
OCCheetos
Active Member
They do, they're just mounted underneath the train instead of in front.
IIRC, they weren't running trains frequently enough (testing hadn't ramped up nearly as much at that point) and ended up being unprepared to clear all the snow that had fallen afterwards.