Replacing * Canada - Bus Rapid Transit with Light Rail
Is the Ottawa model — raise ridership with buses, and then think about more expensive rail options — falling flat? What went wrong? ...
(Video from YouTube, by newflyer800 —13 Feb 2009: 2008 Orion VII HEV NG 5001 on route 4 Hurdman, run 4-1 which is rare, seen in this video going on the Transitway)
Ottawa,ONT,CAN -The Transport Politic, by Yonah Freemark -May 17, 2010: ... Ottawa was too successful, encouraging the city’s citizens to take an average of 125 trips by public transportation a year, more than any equivalently-sized North American city. The transitway has so many riders that it puts 2,600 daily buses onto two downtown streets, and by 2018, the system will have literally no more capacity. By 2030, Ottawa would have to get a bus downtown every eighteen seconds to accommodate all of its riders — an impossible feat... So Mayor Larry O’Brien and his staff have concocted what is now a C$2.1 billion project to run light rail in a three-kilometer tunnel under downtown. The 13-station system will be designed for very high capacity, up to 25,000 riders per direction during the peak hour (up from 10,000 today), thanks to platforms long enough to handle six-car trains and even platform screen doors in the underground stations... By dramatically increasing the average number of passengers per vehicle thanks to long trains and by switching to clean and cheap electricity from diesel fuel, the city will find notable economies in rail. It will also produce far fewer greenhouse gases — saving 38,000 tons by 2031...
Labels: BRT and LR, LR vs BRT
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