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Hey, that's from my city! :P Yeah the O-Train was cheap, but it honestly showed. The stops are few and far between, and often in the middle of nowhere. I'm in

Hey, that's from my city! :P Yeah the O-Train was cheap, but it honestly showed. The stops are few and far between, and often in the middle of nowhere. I'm in this weird zone where I can walk for a solid 10 minutes right along the tracks and not encounter a station. Makes it useless for me. Ottawa just rolled out its 2nd line a couple months ago, and it's been a bit of a disaster in terms of costs and technical issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_Line

ckdarby 7y ago
Some major stops were at South Key's Mall, Carleton University and allowed boarding on the bus transit way before the LRT. Isn't useless for the thousand of Carleton students who use it every day.
- francislavoie 7y ago
  Definitely, not saying it's not useful, just that I can't make use of it. I'm in the centretown west area, and a Gladstone stop would go a long way in making transit less of a pain for me. That is on the way now, but is still a few years away.
- calyth2018 7y ago
  It has significant problem when it come to increasing capacity. Because it's mostly single track, they can't increase the frequency that easily. That leave it to blasting and twining, which will probably wipe out any saving made by reusing that freight line. And extending the platform so that they could tack on more cars when necessary. Line 2's ridership is pretty pitiful in comparison. Daily ridership is 16900 [1]. SkyTrain does 25000 passenger per hour per direction [2]. Outside of the door problems, we're already seeing capacity problems for Line 1 now. Platform gets full, and it is built for the current configuration, so you can't add more cars without major construction (read: service disruptions). This is what happens when we cheap out on infrastructure. We end up paying twice, and getting less for the money. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium_Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium_Line 2: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-2017-kevin-desmond-canada-line-built-skytrain https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-2017-kevin-desmond...
LegitShady 7y ago
The more stops you have the longer each trip takes. Makes more sense to use train to move people between areas and busses within areas.

ckdarby 7y ago

Some major stops were at South Key's Mall, Carleton University and allowed boarding on the bus transit way before the LRT. Isn't useless for the thousand of Carleton students who use it every day.

francislavoie 7y ago
Definitely, not saying it's not useful, just that I can't make use of it. I'm in the centretown west area, and a Gladstone stop would go a long way in making transit less of a pain for me. That is on the way now, but is still a few years away.
calyth2018 7y ago
It has significant problem when it come to increasing capacity. Because it's mostly single track, they can't increase the frequency that easily. That leave it to blasting and twining, which will probably wipe out any saving made by reusing that freight line. And extending the platform so that they could tack on more cars when necessary. Line 2's ridership is pretty pitiful in comparison. Daily ridership is 16900 [1]. SkyTrain does 25000 passenger per hour per direction [2]. Outside of the door problems, we're already seeing capacity problems for Line 1 now. Platform gets full, and it is built for the current configuration, so you can't add more cars without major construction (read: service disruptions). This is what happens when we cheap out on infrastructure. We end up paying twice, and getting less for the money. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium_Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium_Line 2: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-2017-kevin-desmond-canada-line-built-skytrain https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-2017-kevin-desmond...

LegitShady 7y ago

The more stops you have the longer each trip takes. Makes more sense to use train to move people between areas and busses within areas.