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RE: Ottawa LRT - jeffster - 02-14-2019
Quote: "France-based company Alstom, a member of Rideau Transit Group — the SNC Lavalin-led consortium building the 13-station Confederation Line — is supplying the trains for the project."
Well....what could possibly go wrong?
RE: Ottawa LRT - KevinL - 02-14-2019
Oh. Oh dear.
RE: Ottawa LRT - Spokes - 02-15-2019
(02-14-2019, 06:27 PM)Canard Wrote: The fact they have so few vehicles available is what’s alarming.
We actually have a higher percentage of our fleet available for testing and training.
And that's the thing. It was one thing when their stations weren't totally done. But they require a certain number of testing hours. I get the impression we are WAY ahead in that regard. They can't just bypass this.
RE: Ottawa LRT - Canard - 02-24-2019
Here is a nice PDF Presentation of the Stage 2 design, including gobs of renders of all the stations!
https://www.stage2lrt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Stage-2-Light-Rail-Transit-Project_Tech-Briefing_20190222_EN.pdf
A nod to Kiewit, one of the consortium partners, and ION as an example of their work.
The Trillium Line renders suggest an all-new paint scheme for the new Stadler FLIRT trains, more in-line with the LRT and Bus paint schemes. Sharp!
Though later they show an alternate scheme:
So who knows. They are still using the Stadler Variobahn tram design models for all the other renders (not Alstom Citadis Spirit).
RE: Ottawa LRT - KevinL - 02-24-2019
Love those station renders! Thanks for the link.
RE: Ottawa LRT - Spokes - 02-25-2019
Beautiful! That's some big growth
RE: Ottawa LRT - Canard - 03-01-2019
RE: Ottawa LRT - KevinL - 03-01-2019
Maybe half the signs have the English spelling, and half French? (Not sure why they then subtitle with both, though.)
RE: Ottawa LRT - clasher - 03-01-2019
Seems like an oversight, that's the right French spelling and there is enough room to put parliament on that sign too.
RE: Ottawa LRT - Canard - 03-04-2019
WOWWWWWWWwwwwwwwch.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5038832
RE: Ottawa LRT - kps - 03-04-2019
Interesting. Looking at the Googles and Wikipædiæ, it seems the only previous cold-climate Citadisises are in Moscow & St Petersburg where they run on local non-Alstom bogies.
RE: Ottawa LRT - KevinL - 03-04-2019
That's very concerning, wow.
I have to wonder how Metrolinx will react given these were ordered as a backstop...
RE: Ottawa LRT - Spokes - 03-04-2019
Wow.
As a former Ottawa resident, their winters are cold but not THAT cold. Man.
I hope we don't experience anything like that
RE: Ottawa LRT - jeffster - 03-04-2019
(03-04-2019, 03:16 PM)Spokes Wrote: Wow.
As a former Ottawa resident, their winters are cold but not THAT cold. Man.
I hope we don't experience anything like that
We won't. The trains we got are actually tested for cold weather with a track record in Toronto.
As for Ottawa, this is quite shocking. How surprised am I that SNC-Lavalin is involved in all this? Not at all. SNC-Lavalin has always had friends in the right places, so crap like this continues to happen.
Looking like the ION might be in service before the O-Train.
RE: Ottawa LRT - jeffster - 03-04-2019
(02-14-2019, 07:06 PM)jeffster Wrote: Quote: "France-based company Alstom, a member of Rideau Transit Group — the SNC Lavalin-led consortium building the 13-station Confederation Line — is supplying the trains for the project."
Well....what could possibly go wrong?
And welp, we have our answer.