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Ottawa LRT
#91
Not closely following real estate updates half a province away, no.
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#92
Makes me wonder if the DRDC-Toronto campus was one of the reasons the Downsview extension was put on the TTC...
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#93
I suspect not.
The DND Carling Campus is going to house literally thousands of workers. That facility in Toronto would have a couple hundred, at best.

http://transit.toronto.on.ca/archives/we...down.shtml
This would seem to imply that it was a case of it being the cheapest thing they could do that would fit in to the future network plans (1. incremental York extension, and 2. connect with the Sheppard Subway)
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#94
I like the slide where they list all the LRT projects in Ontario. Except ours.
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#95
I like this render, showing the flyover for the Moodie/Baseline split.

   

Though they seem to be having some bunching issues on the line already! Big Grin Tongue Rolleyes
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#96
Also the wrong vehicles.
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#97
...and also the wrong headways!
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#98
Copper thieves targeting the municipal rail system is a new one for OC Transpo.
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news...picks=true
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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#99
System is coming along nicely since my last visit... looking forward to 2018 when I can step off the VIA train and take the LRT right to my downtown hotel!

   

The future Lyon station:
   

Just east of the future Hurdman station:
   

Approaching future Trembley station (VIA Rail Station):
   

Coke
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Thoughts?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/JimWatsonOttawa">@JimWatsonOttawa</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/OC_Transpo">@OC_Transpo</a> Great to see! Though it would look better if you guys had painted the frame between the windows black. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OttLRT?src=hash">#OttLRT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnTrack2018?src=hash">#OnTrack2018</a> Cc: <a href="https://twitter.com/Alstom">@Alstom</a> <a href="https://t.co/qTlNvtmumi">pic.twitter.com/qTlNvtmumi</a></p>&mdash; iain (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/852697150001643522">April 14, 2017</a></blockquote>
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I don't see what part between windows isn't painted black?

Or are you talking about the connection between the front window and the side windows?
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The photo we can see is one that Canard has presumably photoshopped. Check the photo that mayor Watson actually posted to see the difference.
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Oh, got it.

Yeah, much better Canard's way.
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Whoops!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">LRT crane collapses at Waller &amp; Laurier - <a href="https://twitter.com/JoanneCTV">@JoanneCTV</a> reports &amp; Sean McKenny tells us why workers are feeling unsafe. <a href="https://t.co/gDwbHAJorT">https://t.co/gDwbHAJorT</a> <a href="https://t.co/EaMzdQ2usg">pic.twitter.com/EaMzdQ2usg</a></p>&mdash; CTV Ottawa (@ctvottawa) <a href="https://twitter.com/ctvottawa/status/857273633806405634">April 26, 2017</a></blockquote>

It was lowering a small cement mixer vehicle, and overbalanced.  Comments in the video imply that the stabilizers were not deployed.  Looking at that picture, you can see that the far-side stabilizer is pretty clearly not deployed, though that one wouldn't have saved it.
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(04-26-2017, 01:16 PM)Markster Wrote: Whoops!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">LRT crane collapses at Waller &amp; Laurier - <a href="https://twitter.com/JoanneCTV">@JoanneCTV</a> reports &amp; Sean McKenny tells us why workers are feeling unsafe. <a href="https://t.co/gDwbHAJorT">https://t.co/gDwbHAJorT</a> <a href="https://t.co/EaMzdQ2usg">pic.twitter.com/EaMzdQ2usg</a></p>&mdash; CTV Ottawa (@ctvottawa) <a href="https://twitter.com/ctvottawa/status/857273633806405634">April 26, 2017</a></blockquote>

It was lowering a small cement mixer vehicle, and overbalanced.  Comments in the video imply that the stabilizers were not deployed.  Looking at that picture, you can see that the far-side stabilizer is pretty clearly not deployed, though that one wouldn't have saved it.

I'm only licensed to operate small cranes with a capacity of under 8T but the principals for operating remain the same no matter the size of crane.

Every crane has a load chart that will tell the operator how much they can safely lift depending on the length of the boom, the radius, etc. The operator chose to ignore something and this is what happens. The cranes I operate have a computer and sensor that tells me the weight of the load, and every big crane I've ever worked with is the exact same... it starts beeping the second it senses an overload situation and cranes will not operate unless an override button is pushed.

If I were doing this lift I'd have turned the crane 90° and ordered one with a longer boom on it. Obviously this crane just doesn't have the capacity for this lift in this configuration. Lifting over the side on crawler cranes usually results in lower capacties too. Dunno what the operator was smoking this morning but this mistake seems to be on them from what I can see. Unless it was an engineered lift then it's on the EOR for that but it's unlikely that a small cement mixer lift would be an engineered lift.
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