09-15-2019, 06:59 PM
(09-14-2019, 09:50 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(09-14-2019, 07:49 PM)ac3r Wrote: While not related to ION, the Ottawa Confederation Line of the O Train opened up today. It's certainly impressive. 3 of the stations are underground, the trains are running in pairs and hold a lot of people and it runs a lot faster - capable of 80km/h while the ION crawls along at 20km/h along much of the route. The benefits of being completely grade separated I suppose. Granted, Ottawa is a lot bigger and put a lot more money into their project resulting in a grander scale.
$2.1B, so more than double Ion for a shorter (for now) line.
Ottawa built palaces for LRT stations ... increased costs for access and egress, these items have been associated with the high TTC build costs.
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