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It'll be run by two trains going back and forth between South Keys and the airport every 12 minutes with the passing track being located through Uplands station (a pretty long one too which stretches over the Airport Parkway). Unless a train breaks down, I can't see any reason why they'd need...

The Trillium Line has now been closed for about a week and work has already begun. Chunks of rail have already been removed between Gladstone and Carling, namely. The city is publishing regular updates like they did for the Confederation Line...

The city is currently considering the purchase of that corridor (the section that it doesn't already own). Whether it's used will largely depend on what the 2022 TMP says.

For those who don't know, we've known for years that the vehicles were tested at the NRC. Photos were shown in presentations to council and tweeted by Alstom themselves of the vehicles during cold temperature tests. The only new thing we learned is that the vehicles failed 4 of 39 tests, and...

The only FLIRTs running in the US are with TEXRail, though others have been ordered/are being built. The other Stadler vehicles in operation are GTWs. The FLIRTs were modified to meet some new FRA requirements, or something. I can't remember the specifics. Ottawa's FLIRTs are being built in...

The FLIRTs were modified (structurally) for the North American market, so I'm sure we'll see an article about how this specific assembly of parts has never operated anywhere else in the world /s

Most buses ran through it, but it is also the smallest portion of the distance covered by those buses. Each station along the extensions may serve fewer and fewer passengers as you go out from the core, but we will still be funneling the same number of passengers onto those trains which is where...

6 months into Stage 1 of 2+ is a poor sample size. I think you've been told this before on SSP. Stage 2 is where the big savings come in, even if there are ultimately none in Stage 1. Nevermind the fact that at the end of the day this is all coming out of withheld payments... "Spending more"...

It's in future budgets, but keeps being pushed back. Awaiting funding.

A Carling LRT is still in the long term plans, but the city is out of money for at least the next ~20 years hence the bus lanes/queue jumps in the interim..

Sure, but on a system over a year late there's no reason for that to be a deal breaker for opening the line when it is possible to just replace them with guards for the time being. At least the Confederation Line didn't launch without a working ATP system like ION did.

With regards to some of these: Snow issues: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only two issues that are directly caused by snow are with the switches and the intrusion detection system. The former is relatively easy to fix, and the latter is supposed to just be a calibration problem. The...

The main work that requires a shutdown is the construction of a flyover at the Ellwood junction and the lengthening of all existing passing tracks, along with extensive rehabilitation of the Dow's Lake tunnel and Rideau River bridges.

If I'm not mistaken, the only difference between your typical European FLIRT and the ones that debuted in Texas are structural to comply with the FRA alternative-compliance regulations, and that they were built in Stadler's US plant. Ottawa's will have different a interior layout (we don't need...

The incident occurred near a switch.

I refer you back to my post the other day here. Not only is the massive grade change between a tunnel under Billings to above grade at Heron a huge technical challenge, but the transit benefits of building a line on top of the existing transitway are not nearly as great as just building it...

All above-ground stations require physical extension, though the space was left for it. Don't forget that all Stage 2 and possibly even Stage 3 stations will need to be extended too.

All stations on the Confederation Line are designed to accommodate platform doors. Alstom advertises a 4-module Citadis Spirit as being able to carry 340 per vehicle, Ottawa's are configured for 300. I know the seats above the bogies can't really be modified, but Ottawa has an obsession with...

When it comes to a Bank Street subway I find it odd that the people who are generally strongly against "value engineering" often propose alignments that are value engineered to hell in some attempt to justify its costs. Don't get me wrong, I'm typically in favour of something down Bank street...

As far as I know, that max capacity doesn't even include platform extensions. On paper, with headways of 90 seconds, a reconfiguration of the seats (we've configured them to carry less than advertised because SEATS!!) and platform extensions the max capacity is nearly 30K ppdph. David...