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Ottawa LRT
(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.

See! LRT is bad news.  Tongue
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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 &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.

See! LRT is bad news.  Tongue

Not if you are CTV  Confused  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>&mdash; 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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Big Grin

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. Smile

#TeamFlexity
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I hate them solely for the door layout.
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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! Smile  ]

Coke
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Justin Trudeau promises more than $1B for Phase 2 LRT funding
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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, 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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http://www.ottawa2017.ca/events/signatur...kontinuum/

Pretty sweet!
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