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04-26-2017, 05:11 PM
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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 & Laurier - <a href="https://twitter.com/JoanneCTV">@JoanneCTV</a> reports & 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>— 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.
See! LRT is bad news. 
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(04-26-2017, 05:11 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: (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 & Laurier - <a href="https://twitter.com/JoanneCTV">@JoanneCTV</a> reports & 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>— 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.
See! LRT is bad news.
Not if you are CTV  Crane collapse is good news
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OttLRT?src=hash">#OttLRT</a> taken at the Train Yards this afternoon, the 2nd one was still sitting at Blair tonight <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain">@Canardiain</a> <a href="https://t.co/eoLt5iPtkb">pic.twitter.com/eoLt5iPtkb</a></p>— Ian Dudley (@LEGOGuyCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/LEGOGuyCA/status/865366290944360448">May 19, 2017</a></blockquote>
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I think ION definitely wins on the livery and vehicle front. Those vehicles look terrible, imo.
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05-21-2017, 07:52 AM
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I didn't want to say it, but I agree. I admit to some local bias but about the only thing I kind of like is the maple leaf styling. The rest is really bad - the windows (and lack of black between them), the farings up top (those huge gaps - which, I get, are probably functional), and the awful attempt at a "crystal" nose cone (see Dubai Tram or Strasbourg for how to do this right)... all add up to a pretty ugly vehicle.
I guess they do go really fast. 
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05-23-2017, 09:11 AM
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Me too, and the asymmetric bogie configuration which drove it. Such a hodge-podge.
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The only (above ground) stop I passed on this trip (Blair):
[Still hope we go OVER the 401 to have the same visability/LRT awareness that the pedestrian walkways over the 417 have here with the "CATCH IT HERE IN 2018" plastered across the highway! ]
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The growth of the Ottawa LRT system is going to be ridiculous over the next few years.
That article says Phase 2 will add 38km!
System size:
2001: 8 km
2018: 20.5 km
2023: 58.5 km
And I guarantee by 2022, they'll be talking about the Kanata extension. Politically it will be impossible to avoid, if they're already jumping the Greenbelt to Orleans.
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(06-16-2017, 01:27 PM)Markster Wrote: The growth of the Ottawa LRT system is going to be ridiculous over the next few years.
That article says Phase 2 will add 38km!
System size:
2001: 8 km
2018: 20.5 km
2023: 58.5 km
And I guarantee by 2022, they'll be talking about the Kanata extension. Politically it will be impossible to avoid, if they're already jumping the Greenbelt to Orleans.
Politically indeed - is there any way at all to make an economic case for extension to Kanata?
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06-16-2017, 03:38 PM
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(06-16-2017, 01:38 PM)panamaniac Wrote: (06-16-2017, 01:27 PM)Markster Wrote: The growth of the Ottawa LRT system is going to be ridiculous over the next few years.
That article says Phase 2 will add 38km!
System size:
2001: 8 km
2018: 20.5 km
2023: 58.5 km
And I guarantee by 2022, they'll be talking about the Kanata extension. Politically it will be impossible to avoid, if they're already jumping the Greenbelt to Orleans.
Politically indeed - is there any way at all to make an economic case for extension to Kanata?
Barrhaven/Manotick would also be an eventuality.
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This handy map shows the planned Phase 2 enhancements, and existing BRT. http://www.stage2lrt.ca/where/
Easy to see where future LRT could be considered.
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The train is coming: LRT stations taking shape as Belfast berm removed
Looking forward to the light show at Lyon, and seeing lots more testing this summer.
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I'm going at the end of August! I'll be sure to post pics!
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