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I'm not sure where that number is sourced from, but the one I've seen was a $9M/year net saving by switching to LRT. OC Transpo has always been constrained by a tight budget. The LRT didn't change that. I don't know exactly why which cuts were made where and for what reason. The budget was...

I'd like to point out that this has never been anything more than theory created by you, so please don't try to pass it off like some fact. The fixed-price nature of the LRT maintenance contract kind of makes this theory impossible. Perhaps additional cuts were made, but the cost to maintain...

They investigate occurrences on railways that are under the "legislative authority of parliament", which the Confederation Line is, despite the delegation of regulation. None of those other railways are under the "legislative authority of parliament". Aside: Interestingly, the TSB never...

Transport Canada delegated regulation to the city, but in the TSB's eyes the line is still under federal jurisdiction. TC and the TSB are separate entities, and the city doesn't have any special agreements with the TSB. I feel like these are still missing the point. They can re-rail trains...

Like @ARG1 says, the reason it's taken so long is because of the extra steps being required by the city to ensure that this can't happen again before relaunching. The TSB didn't allow them to move the train until after two days had passed. Once they got the all clear, it took them a few hours...

"Low floor", but not as low of a floor of course.

...well there's your problem. And what if a bus leaves one minute early? Or a train is one minute late? You're stuck in the exact same situation. This isn't, and could never be a true solution in an urban transit system.

You can see a the detailed future track alignments here: https://map.railfans.ca/#11/45.3629/-75.6579/-30 Packed trains were a regular occurrence in the morning peak due to the number of students at Carleton trying to make it to their 8:30 classes. Being left behind at Mooney's Bay happened a...

In the morning rush, it was a regular occurrence for students to be left behind at Mooney's Bay and Carling stations. This doubling of capacity is supposed to offer enough capacity to last through until 2046, but with the amount of development taking place on the line it's hard to say how long...

The trains don't have mirrors. I don't think it's that surprising that no one pulled the emergency brake. Most people probably wouldn't know how to immediately react in a situation like that.

The derailed bogie was nearly 80m away from the cab. The operator most likely had no idea.

I don't think this is true at all. Siemens was being considered by RTG even after they had been awarded the bid for Stage 1. Ultimately RTG chose Alstom.

They've definitely been there since opening day. (See: Reece's video from that day, you can see the whistle-blower at the end of the platform) although at the time I believe they were also trying to use some sort of remote-controlled light that was mounted in the cabs, rather than a whistle...

This isn't fully applicable in Ottawa. Heating the track as Metrolinx does allows the rails to be operable in a -20 to +40 degree range, but Ottawa still regularly has days below -20 in the winter and needs to stay in the more typical range of -30 to +30 to avoid cracks in the rail. In reality...

This has been the case since opening day. The platform camera systems are not yet working reliably enough. Extending the existing platform, and adding a second one on the east.

It would have been diesel. I'm not sure double articulated buses would have been feasible in Ottawa given the amount of snow that falls regularly (even simple articulated buses have trouble with that), and a tunnel was considered but wouldn't have provided the necessary capacity boost to make...

On the topic of the operational savings of LRT, some numbers from Ottawa might be interesting: The 2011 business case for the Confederation Line (Stage 1) estimated $9.6 million/year in transit operation savings. In practice, I believe the opening of the line only resulted in around $5...

There was another one in the yard tonight (as seen from St. Clair). Wasn't able to catch the number unfortunately.

IIRC the FLIRT Akku didn't exist when they were selected, and changing tech so late in an already-late project would have been too risky.