• Ottawa Light Rail

  • General discussion of passenger rail systems not otherwise covered in the specific forums in this category, including high speed rail.
General discussion of passenger rail systems not otherwise covered in the specific forums in this category, including high speed rail.

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  by ClintonDesveaux
 
BREAKING: Clear Majority Favour Bank Street O-Train Line:

  by ClintonDesveaux
 
This guy is a respected voice for the urban core who has a podcast with a large and dedicated Ottawa audience. He has done a number of episodes on the O-Train network. This episode he is talking about the Bank Street O-Train Tunnel:



  by ClintonDesveaux
 
Ottawans Favourable to Bank Street O-Train Tunnel

  by electricron
 
Ottawa is a fairly large city with a population of nearly 1 million.How many participated in the poll, and did 50% of those in the poll amount to 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000, or half a million votes?
  by ClintonDesveaux
 
electricron wrote: Mon Dec 28, 2020 7:20 pm Ottawa is a fairly large city with a population of nearly 1 million.How many participated in the poll, and did 50% of those in the poll amount to 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000, or half a million votes?
Actually Ottawa Gatineau has a population of 1,441,118
  by ClintonDesveaux
 
  by ClintonDesveaux
 
  by ClintonDesveaux
 
Can Bank Street O-Train Tunnel Find Potential Funding?
Trudeau pledges billions in permanent funding for public transit more at link:

  by dowlingm
 
All this talk of building a new line - did Chrystia Freeland have any money for the airport station in the existing project in her budget?
https://www.obj.ca/article/local/touris ... d-covid-19

Hard to say that there can be so much enthusiasm for what would be a very expensive downtown project after a) the sinkhole from Confederation Line construction, b) how can a proper approval process happen this time around

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/r ... -1.4564015
https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/o ... te-2152753