Recent content by Kyle Campbell

I feel like this is a new trend to reduce costs so they don't need to install ventilation. Ottawa will have two similar stations on line 1 West that are actually in a tunnel, but the platform portion will be exposed to the sky. Ventilation was the justification

Maybe it's a blessing. The shuttle bus makes the end to end run in 36 minutes

So of the existing light rail lines in Ontario Ottawa's Line 1 using the same Citadis vehicle as Finch travels 12.5 km in 25-29 minutes. It used to do under 24 before all the slow zones Ottawa's Line 2, which is considered slow, travels 19km in 36-40 minutes Line 4 makes it 4km run in 9 min...

I meant on opening day. Hence the "disappointment came later" thing. Here they started with the disappointment at hour 1. With Ottawa the problems built over time, and people got more and more disillusioned with the line to the point they lost all hope, and even though it's "reliable" now the...

So to avoid an Ottawa style disaster, they chose a worse PR disaster? At least people were happy and hopeful when the Confed line opened, the disappointment came later

They had flipped so many times, I thought it was still in the air. But I guess it has been settled, maybe, to Wellington

Out of curiosity, does the Line 6 Citadii shudder like it's going to go off the rails when it makes the turn at Humber College like the Ottawa ones do on a tight (really any) corner?

I mean they already did once. I'm assuming the extension to Vaughan wasn't already buried there under the map, but it could have been. I can't recall then being on the map when the TRs first started appearing, but not living in Toronto at the time I wasn't a regular rider so I might be...

Visitors to Toronto are far more likely to use a streetcar then a bus even though to the locals it's all kind of the same. You could argue only the LRT-like streetcars count such as St Clair and waterfront/Spadina

In terms of making the most of what we have, I definitely agree with making double track from Mooney's Bay to Walkley, and the full distance from Corso Italia to Dows lake. The single track sections through the tunnel and the Rideau River bridge are manageable. The goal would be to get to that...

It may actually be specific to Ottawa. They had a set of unique rules approved by TC, though I can't find the actual list, just the reference to the meeting https://tc.canada.ca/en/binder/55-city-ottawa-capital-railway-trillium-line

Not quite, I'm just saying it's already a done deal. What's the point of the comparison ? They built what they built. We know REM and many other electric lines are faster. REM was also quite a bit more expensive, though it's the gold standard I'd say in bang for buck. The REM is faster than the...

I mean yes it's true, but it kind of feels like you're kicking it when its down. The results are fairly obvious, and the 25kph is a transport Canada thing Ottawa has no choice over. Given the commuter rail like nature of Line 2 it's more fair to compare it to a Go train traveling similar...

I don't know about that. That dreaded one they used to have near Sheppard West was the slowest I think I have ever moved on a subway or lrt anywhere I've been

It seems excessively slow. That's much slower than ION, which travels almost double the distance in that same 46 minutes. I know Finch is using the beloved Citadis which is so near and dear to our hearts in Ottawa, and maybe that they are afraid of it going off the rails, quite literally