Ottawa Transit Developments

[IRT_BMT_IND]

Agreed.

Quebec seems to have near zero long term planning and vision for what its transit should look like outside of Montreal.

Personally I think the feds should be responsible for NCR interprovincial transit because having a bescope ottawa and gatneu system seems so stupid to me when both cities effectively are one.

Its like if waterloo regions had three separate ion systems ending right at each other's borders..dumb

One weird and very annoying quirk is that Presto and and Gatineau's Multi card are partially interoperable except in the one area where it really counts, which is being able to originate a trip on the "other" system. So you can use your Presto to transfer to an STO bus, but if you don't have a second card you still need cash or paper STO bus tickets for the reverse trip. So it's really most useful for commuters with passes, because if you need two smartcards in other use cases it makes the benefits of interoperability mostly redundant. I suspect this is because Ontario and Quebec don't trust each other to give each other write access to their respective systems and/or don't want to deal with paying each other.

 

[Bojaxs]

Well, the situation with the Alstom Citadis's in Ottawa is getting out of hand.

70% of the fleet being pulled out of service to fix the axel issues, which could take over a year to complete.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/1ree185/lrt_might_be_running_but_good_luck_getting_on_the

 

[Thaboss]

Well, the situation with the Alstom Citadis's in Ottawa is getting out of hand.

70% of the fleet being pulled out of service to fix the axel issues, which could take over a year to complete.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/1ree185/lrt_might_be_running_but_good_luck_getting_on_the

At this point it would be irresponsible for the govt to bring back workers to in person days from three to four days this summer

 

[drum118]

What to expect on the commute when four-day return-to-office begins​

 

[Thaboss]

https://www.octranspo.com/en/news/a...st-extension-achieves-substantial-completion/


O train stage 2 has reached substantial completion. Next up - fix enough trains so stage 2 can be revenue tested

 

[drum118]

Line 1 still stuck at 21 train cars as reduced LRT service continues​

 

[max]

Some intense sparking on the LRT overhead in Ottawa:

OC Transpo reported a stopped train on the LRT Line 1 tracks at about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon after it observed “arcing on the trains” as well as damage to the the overhead wire system between Hurdman and Lees Stations.
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“These impacts appear to be related to the severe weather event,” Troy Charter, interim general manager of OC Transpo, wrote in a Wednesday evening memo.

O-Train Line 1 down as freezing rain storm hits the city

A large storm caused LRT troubles as a storm hit with as much as 10 mm to 20 mm of ice buildup expected.

ottawacitizen.com

 

[Thaboss]

Some intense sparking on the LRT overhead in Ottawa:

O-Train Line 1 down as freezing rain storm hits the city

A large storm caused LRT troubles as a storm hit with as much as 10 mm to 20 mm of ice buildup expected.

ottawacitizen.com

Seriously...

I know the icy rain was relatively intense but did we not spec transit in ottawa to handle ice accumulation?

 

[Thaboss]

Some intense sparking on the LRT overhead in Ottawa:

O-Train Line 1 down as freezing rain storm hits the city

A large storm caused LRT troubles as a storm hit with as much as 10 mm to 20 mm of ice buildup expected.

ottawacitizen.com

Seriously...

I know the icy rain was relatively intense but did we not spec transit in ottawa to handle ice accumulation?


Is something like this common in other jurisdictions?

 

[drum118]

Post this earlier in the wrong thread

Overhead wire issues sparks LRT system repairs that could stretch on into Thursday​

 

[urbanclient]

Seriously...

I know the icy rain was relatively intense but did we not spec transit in ottawa to handle ice accumulation?


Is something like this common in other jurisdictions?

Considering how overbuilt the OCS is in Ontario vs. France, you would think it could handle ice accumulation... Maybe the money for extra wires and masts was for form and not function...

 

[Kyle Campbell]

It may be something more than just weather. This incident and the previous time both happened in the same general area, where the line travels near than over the Rideau River. They mentioned that there's a micro climate here that makes the freezing on the lines worse than in other spots

Maybe they need to consider something different here

 

[Bordercollie]

It may be something more than just weather. This incident and the previous time both happened in the same general area, where the line travels near than over the Rideau River. They mentioned that there's a micro climate here that makes the freezing on the lines worse than in other spots

Maybe they need to consider something different here

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Build a snow tunnel.

 

[Kyle Campbell]

Build a snow tunnel.

Probably not even that elaborate. I think they should just stick a canopy over the canternary there..