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RE: Ottawa LRT - jamincan - 12-30-2016
The initial plan was an extension/conversion of the current Trillium Line. Barrhaven would have been connected to the system from the south end of the line.
RE: Ottawa LRT - Canard - 12-30-2016
I thought they were doing an expansion of the Trillium Line, and that's why they're selling off their original 3 trains?
...time elapses...
Okay, so if I've got this right... it sounds like the initial plan is the one that Markster mentioned - converting the Diesel powered single-tracked line to electrified LRT (with two tracks of course), and extending it down and then to the West. But then that was cancelled.
Then there's a new plan, just to expand the current Diesel system, like so:
![[Image: WebsiteSouthMap_EN.png]](http://www.stage2lrt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WebsiteSouthMap_EN.png)
Is that right?
Edit - Ahh... this explains all!.
RE: Ottawa LRT - Coke6pk - 12-30-2016
The cancelled plan:
Source: Wikipedia
Edit: Missed Canard's edit by this much....
RE: Ottawa LRT - KevinL - 01-29-2017
Who wants to put together a proposal to buy them, and create a Kitchener-Breslau-Guelph shuttle?
RE: Ottawa LRT - Canard - 01-30-2017
A few months the ago when that story broke, I siggested to the Waterloo Central Railway they should buy them and run 'em up to Elmira
RE: Ottawa LRT - JJTL - 01-30-2017
(01-29-2017, 10:39 PM)KevinL Wrote: Who wants to put together a proposal to buy them, and create a Kitchener-Breslau-Guelph shuttle?
I'd vote for that!
RE: Ottawa LRT - Coke6pk - 01-31-2017
(01-30-2017, 02:58 PM)JJTL Wrote:(01-29-2017, 10:39 PM)KevinL Wrote: Who wants to put together a proposal to buy them, and create a Kitchener-Breslau-Guelph shuttle?
I'd vote for that!
If by Breslau you mean YKF, then I'm in!
Coke
RE: Ottawa LRT - Canard - 01-31-2017
Love airport connectors!
RE: Ottawa LRT - DHLawrence - 02-03-2017
Don't get you hopes up on the airport unless there's a big cash injection to lay the track. More likely would be Breslau GO when it's built with a bus from there.
RE: Ottawa LRT - jamincan - 02-04-2017
Which is really way more than adequate.
RE: Ottawa LRT - Canard - 02-04-2017
I was really hoping that now they've got at least one train together and out on their short "test track", there would be lots of photos and videos... but I can't find anything.
I'm guessing it's no fun standing around outside in Ottawa winter weather trying to guess if it might come along or not to capture a shot.
RE: Ottawa LRT - tomh009 - 02-04-2017
(02-04-2017, 07:30 AM)jamincan Wrote: Which is really way more than adequate.
Even an express bus from LRT to the airport would work well, at least until YYZ has substantially more flights than it has today.
RE: Ottawa LRT - Markster - 02-17-2017
Stage 2 LRT for Ottawa just got bigger
http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-s-light-rail-extension-will-take-trains-to-trim-road-riverside-south-and-moodie-drive-1.3290111
The proposed extension to Trim Rd in the east was officially added to the plan.
The extension to the Airport is also officially on the books, but they're still hoping for upper-tier funding to cover it and the Trim Rd extension.
And in some very surprising news to me, they even added an extension to Moodie Dr in the west!
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Green Light to Moodie for Western LRT! Working with <a href="https://twitter.com/JimWatsonOttawa">@JimWatsonOttawa</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenBlais">@StephenBlais</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/KeithEgli">@KeithEgli</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ottawa?src=hash">#Ottawa</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LRT?src=hash">#LRT</a> details <a href="https://t.co/c95djLTxPp">https://t.co/c95djLTxPp</a> <a href="https://t.co/2pCpOcvqGX">pic.twitter.com/2pCpOcvqGX</a></p>— Mark Taylor (@Go_Taylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/Go_Taylor/status/832623682744942593">February 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
But considering the brand new tenant on Moodie Dr... I'm not surprised.
There's a Scribd document with a lot of sexy pictures:
https://www.scribd.com/document/339620986/STAGE-2-LIGHT-RAIL-TRANSIT-LRT
RE: Ottawa LRT - KevinL - 02-18-2017
(02-17-2017, 08:12 PM)Markster Wrote: But considering the brand new tenant on Moodie Dr... I'm not surprised.
Who would that be, then?
RE: Ottawa LRT - Markster - 02-18-2017
Why, DNDn't you hear about the massive government department taking over the Nortel Campus?
(The Department of National Defence)