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I remember first seeing that sign and wondering what the hell, but it's just confusing wayfinding since both the University itself and the station entrance are that way. And since the sign (not the station) has to be translated.... I wouldn't be surprised to see a similar sign at Humber College

It's actually better to use the common local name for the station. In Ottawa there's only one station with a bilingual name, Parliament/Parlement. All the others remain in their default language used by the locals, like "Mooney's Bay","Tunney's Pasture" "Lycée Claudel", "Place d'Orléans" etc.

I'm curious, is there a possibility there wasn't even any intrusion detection setup in this section? After all it was in the middle of a highway median, they might not have thought it was necessary to add in this location

I didn't mean to derail the thread with semantics about Ottawa. As an FYI the entire system is branded OTrain, both line 1 and the original, now né Line 2. But the point is that the trip from South Key via Line 2 to Rideau is longer than the old (still existing) transitway bus as it takes a...

Not sure if this explanation would apply in Toronto, but in Ottawa line 2 is *slower* than the bus it replaced to the most popular destination: Rideau and the Byward market. But it's popular and has high ridership. Comfort is one factor, but reliability was the main reason it wins. The bus you...

I would have thought the whole driving into oncoming traffic would have been a clue. It's really a mystery how some people got a licence in the first place

One danger sign of "worse and trying to hide it" is how the Ontario government was gleeful about doing an inquiry around the confederation line and even made a big deal about threatening to not fund future extensions due to mismanagement, yet has shut down any attempt of a similar inquiry for...

It does seem to have stolen the unwanted crown from the Otrain. It's beginning to feel like this and Line 6 are never going to open. I mean I know they will open, but this is nuts

Just noticed this on the virtual tour. That must be a sign error, there's no way there's 26 bus stops

You'd be surprised what a difference it makes to accessibility to always have a redundant elevator. Elevators break down surprisingly often. I never really appreciated them until I tried pushing my kids in a stroller years ago through the very inaccessible Montreal underground. Making a person...

In fact the only place in the system that lacked a redundant elevator was one part of Blair station that was from the original transitway. It's now getting two new elevators https://www.octranspo.com/en/news/article/blair-station-elevator-replacement/

Ottawa's design spec for all stations, ever since the first part of line 1 is there must be redundant elevators that doesn't require a person to travel to another entrance. Even way out in the boonies at stations like Bowesville there's 4 elevators and it's in the middle of a forest and farm...

A couple new virtual tours, this time of Line 1 East. One thing that's new in all the East stations is a windscreen in front of the main entrances. I guess kinda neat for less wind, but maybe somewhat annoying to have to walk around Trim...

I'm guessing January, similar to what happened here in Ottawa for Line 2. Final bits after the passing test went well into November, and then they didn't want to start things in December as too many staff were off for the holidays They probably won't do the very tepid gradual launch thing they...

I recently flew out of Montreal to Europe. I didn't do it because it was cheaper, I did it because there was more flight choices. If I had left from Ottawa I would have landed in Paris at 6am with kids in tow. I wanted to get there later in the morning. When I can fly out of Ottawa I do...

The biggest problem of all of it is reputational damage to transit. All O-Train lines have a reliability (defined as arriving within 30 seconds of scheduled arrival time) of well over 98%, which is higher than the majority of urban rail lines in North America. But the initial problems were so...

I'm sure it was mentioned somewhere way back, but why did they end up choosing single bore for this? It seemed for a while twin bore was the default for projects, but it seems single bore is back in vogue. I'm curious as to the reasoning

Basically it's an endless game of finger pointing. The city blames RTG and Alstom, despite the weird requirements in their RFP that wanted an LRT to perform at subway levels. Alstom and RTG blame the city for crazy requirements, yet both accepted them in the RFP RTG blames Alstom and says...

Interesting. In Ottawa, I'd say people use "The LRT" more often than they do O-Train, despite the branding

Oh, when I saw this article a while ago I thought a few platforms had to be extended for it to work https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-station-platform-extension