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Originally Posted by KHOOLE
The proposed 2.1 billion dollars downtown tunnel is simply replacing the present Transitway system with a LRT line. What "capacity" is being added to the transit sytem for 2.1 billion dollars? BTW, that's 2,100 million dollars!
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Bus vs. ORT capacities;
Bus; 1 bus every 30 seconds (and that’s stretching it) with 100 people per bus;
90 buses x 100 people = 9,000 phpd
ORT; initial max capacity - 1 train every 2 minutes, 1 train will initially contain 4 cars, 200 people per car, so 800 people per train;
30 trains x 800 people = 24,000 phpd
ORT; extended platforms and automated; 1 train 1 m 30 s, 1 train containing 5 cars, 200 people per car, so 1000 people per train;
40 trains x 1000 people = 40,000 phpd
So yes, the capacity will
greatly be increased and the 2.1 billion, as well as future investement in the ORT is fully justified; we are finnaly starting to catch up to the other big Canadian cities.
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Originally posted by rakerman
You don't need to run a line down Rideau and Montreal.
All you have to do is run a connector line up Bathgate and Burma and you could pick up all the Rockcliffe, Cite, NRC traffic and connect it to the transitway at Blair. Could be a connector bus or a tram. Just has to be frequent.
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That would be an OK (but very expensive) solution for CFB Rockliffe, but that would create another transfer (as opposed to a Rideau-Montreal subway). Furthermore, by not building the Bank-Rideau-Montreal subway, you leave massive, high density and high potential dead zones like Vanier, the east part of Rideau (although they will still build around east Rideau, the road will end up over capacity), Centertown, Lansdowne, and Old Ottawa south.
What I don' understand is why did they not use the old base as social housing (in the old existing houses) for a few decades while they sorted out the whole lack of transportation.
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