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It’s one more reason that I’m advocate for a re-think of Ottawa’stransportation plans, centred around the transformation of CN Rail’s Beachburg Corridor into a major east-west transit corridor connecting our city’s strategic centres and intersecting existing transit lines. 3/

Oh my god it was right after the chorus dropped too

Carling gets full BRT now Jim we can’t be asking for just bus lanes now

Spreadsheet looks like it would’ve been made by someone very smart and good looking

He’s already announced he’s running!

THE #JEFFSWEEP IS IN FULL EFFECT

The choice is a tramway down Wellington or continue to scale STO bus service to demand and have a higher peak number of buses per hour crossing Portage and into downtown than was ever seen on the peak of the Transitway. The road network and bridges do not have the capacity for one of these choices

This is not a project for Ottawa, it’s not a project to make getting around downtown easier for Ottawans, it is explicitly to meet capacity needs for Aylmer/Plateau transit users. Wellington is planned to be pedestrianized regardless if the tram exists or not

Wellington is not the destination, it’s work downtown. Most STO commuters are taking the bus to downtown Hull or downtown Ottawa, and not transferring to another bus or system to go further into the city. The goal of the tram is not to make Wellington an attractive tourist destination

The tramway in Gatineau is meant to address near future capacity concerns through a bottleneck, not really travel times or reliability. Continuous bus lanes east of St Laurent and queue jumps+signal priority west of it would carry most of/more benefit than a tram for significantly less cost

Along Rideau and Montreal (west of St Laurent) there unfortunately is not enough room in the right of way to permit for a travel lane in each direction and a dedicated tramway corridor in the centre with dedicated platforms. Similar setup to TTC streetcars, expensive and almost no real benefit

The Confederation Boulevard Planning and Design Guidelines released today is available here: ncc-website-2.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Su...

I am not sure what the planned connection between the Rideau/Wellington cycle track and the Elgin cycling tracks looks like so I invented one. I think it minimizes as much conflict as possible