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Sadly, the whole stand right walk left hasn't fully sunk in yet here.

Found this online, the first few minutes shows the looong descent into Rideau station. I'm kind of in two minds about deep stations. It's neat to go down so far, but it really makes it too inconvenient to hop on a train to travel to a different part of downtown like in Toronto or Montreal. There...

Subway is a vague term, it was always going to be a metro line thing, but the question is how long are the trains and what are the frequency. Both should be high, but it sounds like train length might be low. Other than that, automated or not is less relevant Given that this is likely to be a...

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They pretty much did. The thing is the system is running tikety-boo in all other time periods. It's fairly magical, which is why people were ooing and aahing during the first few weeks. It's only failing at.the peak of the peak period, which in Ottawa is between 7:30 and 8:30 as that's when the...

I'm in software myself, and at least in software the users always prove the designers and programmers wrong

In the misery loves company department, or perhaps dampening my optimism that Ottawa's troubles will be over soon https://www.2gb.com/rail-fail-brand-new-sydney-metro-out-of-action-again/

Oh, in that case you're pretty much screwed :). Horrible winter transit stories are an OC Transpo speciality.

Ignoring the thought exercise of an empty tunnel, you actually don't need any emergency exits as long as the station distance doesn't exceed 762 m (2500ft) under NFPA fire standards, the stations themselves are close enough to be the exit

That's the way it's done in the snowier cities farther up the 401. Sidewalk plows clear the snow but at least in Ottawa and I believe Montreal the bus stops get cleared by workers with shovels in light snow and by loaders and dump trucks in the wee hours overnight in a major snow

It's only 3 straight days of catastrophic LRT failures :) Today and Monday was only catastrophic bus failures, which is the OC Transpo we all know and love here in Ottawa Also they started with just enough trains for load because OC Transpo always looked at this as a money saving exercise...

One thing that will probably not change for me now is that checking Twitter has become part of my morning routine. If it's exploding, I change my commute to take the slower number 6 bus all the way up Bank Street from Billings Bridge. At least until I'm totally sure that they have their act...

It is, which is why this only happens between 7:30 and 8:30, and not today before a long weekend. That period is when trains are so full the doors start closing before people can get off and on. Fixing the timing will go a long way, but still the doors should be more durable then they have been.

Trillium line stations actually have a green bar on their signs

Or it might be the airport branch of Line 2. Given the fact they went to the trouble of giving numbers, and reserving the numbers 3 and 4 (buses start at 5) I think they'll number the branches. It probably means they will be interlined I'm the tunnel. I know some people don't think they'd use a...

Fortunately the public has.a short attention span and memory. Nobody talks about Montreal's Azures less than stellar launch, and even the whole TTC streetcar debacle is starting to fade into the past. I'm not too concerned about what this means for the future of LRT as long as things stabilize...

The east end load is way more distributed between Blair, St Laurent and Hurdman. The west end load means 99% of that traffic boards at Tunney's, and the stupid decision to use side rather than a centre platform even though it's a temporary terminus means the platforms are always full to the...

It was always a technical fault, it's just been greatly compounded by OC Transpo's general mismanagement around the LRT switchover. The winner of this should be Metrolinx. The TTC suffered and fixed Flexity issues so that Ion and the Crosstown benefit (yes different vehicles, but close enough...

Today's daily OTrain shutdown has begun. We might add well change it so we only announce days when isn't shut down

Maybe, but the sensor isn't the problem, it's the doors getting knocked out of their tracks when they force close. But while OC Transpo is blaming the passenger, the issue is that the doors close too early for the loads on the train. There's no conductor deciding when to close the doors like in...