The passing tracks added 5 years ago were supposed to increase frequencies to 8 minutes. Instead, we're now at a steady 12 minute frequency. It's unlikely that 8 minutes will be attainable without more double tracking.
So not only are you an insider at MOOSE, you're apparently not a transportation engineer at the City of Ottawa? How do you manage the conflicts of interest?
If you had attended any of the public consultations, they did explain the issues they had meeting pledged frequencies and how that will be mitigated in Stage 2.
Considering their lack of funding,
....they should not be taken very seriously at all.
MOOSE could and should provide more information.
Understatement of the year. But we've got many more months to go.....
you can't definitively prove
The onus is not on me to prove anything. You seem to constantly miss this basic concept. Are you trolling or do you get how this actually works?
This is why we can't have nice things. With a sizable portion of the population of the NCR living across a provincial border, it kind of makes good (or better) interpovincial transit difficult.
Again, why should an Ottawa ratepayer care about this at all? Why should Ottawa residents suffer worse service on infrastructure their city owns so that others can benefit? Let communities on the other side of the river pony up.
Were you also against amalgamation?
People say amalgamation has been bad for Toronto because Old Toronto took in the burbs. They should come to Ottawa and see the nightmare its become where completely rural areas were merged with urban and suburban boroughs and now expect similar levels of service. There's a reason property taxes in Ottawa are ridiculous and rising quickly.
To gain support they'll absolutely have to in the future.
Given that they are petitioning for the bridge right now and we're on the verge of construction of Stage 2 right now, there's no time to wait for the future.
But you can't start making claims that they'll be a detriment to public transit when they're still in a planning phase
When they keep attempting to undermine Stage 2, and have publicly admitted that they would offer worse frequencies than Stage 2, why should they not be called out?
Areas that don't pay taxes to the City of Ottawa, but want access to infrastructure that I support with my taxes, all while asking me to accept worse service. Again, why is this in my benefit as a taxpayer? And why should my city councillor, MPP and MP support this?
(and if they ever did, I would happily cut cheques to their opponents....that's a promise from me)
Assuming all three lines ran hourly and the two that use the Trillium Line corridor are interlined and evenly spaced out (time-wise), you'd be looking at a frequency of 30 minutes.
So best case scenario is half the number of trains on the Trillium Line today? Again, why should any Ottawa resident support this?
No. I am going off facts that Trillium has provided. You're the one making assumptions. For example, you have no idea about Trillium's finances,but you seem to already project that they'll offer more service than they've publicly proffered to date in their filings with the authorities. Are you trolling or working PR at MOOSE? Which is it?
Mr. Potvin has added some of the information we needed.
No he hasn't. And you can't be so naive that you can't see the flaw in his post?
MOOSE would work to achieve 5-minute service on the Trillium Line. Of course double-tracking.
OC Transpo would be able to achieve 3 min service or better if they wanted to with double tracking. I didn't ask for a hypothetical on what MOOSE could accomplish given some hypothetical infrastructure that does not exist. I asked what MOOSE was willing to commit to. Tell me, as an Ottawa ratepayer, what service you will commit to providing on day one of your operation and how it compares to what the city is planning on delivering in Sept 2021.
The questions I have been asking stand and you can feel free to answer them:
1) What will the peak, midpeak, off-peak frequencies be for Moose at launch? And how do they compare to the Trillium Line after Stage 2?
2) Can you commit to the station locations of the current stations on the Trillium Line and the planned station locations for Stage 2?
3) What are the negotiated transfer arrangements between OC Transpo and MOOSE?
Answer those without equivocation or red herrings (as you did above), to my satisfaction and I'll happily start advocating for you. Heck, I'd gladly invest.