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Well, yes, there is that dark cloud on the horizon....

Meanwhile it seems the confed line issues have stabilized greatly. Won't say we're out of the woods, but things are definitely looking sunnier.

The public urination one isn't really one I'd count when complaining about reliability, nor the medical emergencies that happen from time to time. I would say major shutdowns are definitely getting farther apart, but we aren't at the level we should be.

This tweet sort of explains the uphill battle OC Transpo faces. The transitway gave people a single seat ride right from their door to their office for cheap. It just couldn't scale anymore, but taking it away is the biggest source of backlash. Combine it with the still too frequent train...

No, the door issues aren't the main problem anymore. They seem to be having switch and computer problems now, which are more random, but very disruptive during rush hour. We are at 70 hours since the last incident though so maybe we're finally turning a corner. They seem to be getting farther...

As a daily rush hour rider, I'd say it's somewhat overblown if you're looking from the outside at just news reports, but definitely real. It does seem to be getting better though.

While I agree, 8 billion to reactivate an existing above ground 8km right of way, even you have to redo the track and stations is excessive.

Nobody is as capable of spending more for less than NYC. I do think though that Toronto seems to be going that way too, costs to build things in Toronto seem way higher than elsewhere in Canada.

True, but the incremental cost on the project is peanuts. You could argue why build any shelter at all, you can carry an umbrella when it rains and countdown timers are frivolities since people have smart phones. If it was an exorbitant cost then sure, but I doubt the savings would by you more...

They are fairly simple and reliable things. Heaters have been in most of Ottawa's stations since the 80s, and it's extremely rare to see them broken. It's nothing compared to how often elevators and escalators, or even shelter glass needs maintenance

Staring at the construction photos, I'm on the fence on whether it's not behind. Here's photos of the confed line around Sept 2017, which is exactly two years before it's actual open date

I'm not sure how signaling factors here, since the trains are running ATO, so that's theoretically better then fixed block. We should be able to hit 15kpphd and 26 trains per hour now, if we actually had enough vehicles. There's also an allowance for a 5th module per vehicle, bringing it up to...

You're comparing to Toronto subways, Toronto and Montreal are in a different league population wise versus Ottawa. A better comparison is cities in a similar size class, which all use trains of the same 2.6m width as Ottawa. Vancouver is much shorter, at 60m, Calgary and Edmonton are about the...

They would have just picked shorter trains. There isn't any big differences in capacity between Vancouver and Ottawa when it comes to the vehicles. The extra 25m of length of a paired Citadis over a Mark III makes up for the low floor. In no scenario would we have ended up with something like...

Maybe we should use URT, Unconventional rail transit :)

Both :) There's only 13 consistently in service, sometimes 14. There's 18 finished pairs total, plus another 4 languishing incomplete in the shed, which can't get finished because they are too busy with trying to keep enough of the existing ones in service and need the other 4 finished pairs as...

A concrete example. The venerable 95 bus route was replaced with Rapid route 39. The 39, despite being the rapid transit service to Orleans for the next 6 years runs every 30(!) minutes except at peak. Nothing they do west of Blair would fix that mess.

You misunderstand what I'm saying, all those problems are true, though I wouldn't put it so melodramatically. The biggest problem is not enough trains at peak, which is mismanagement on OC Transpo's part, as is the bus network as is the bus loop design OC Transpo signed off on knowing full well...

Well I think the Canada line uses seltrac, and from a signaling standpoint it was a big success even at launch. In that case though there wasn't much in the way of teething problems, the realization that a 2 car subway with 40m platforms is horribly undersized even at high frequencies only came...

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