Light Rail on Ottawa Streets(1) . Part One.

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Uploaded by on Apr 8, 2009

These series of videos explain how it is both feasible and cost effective to build and operate a Rapid Transit Light Rail system on surface streets through downtown Ottawa.

David Jeanes (P. Eng), President of Transport 2000 demonstrates (via maps of downtown Ottawa and scale model cut-outs of 4-car Light Rail vehicles) how stations can be placed on many sections of Slater and Albert Streets as well as on the McKenzie King Bridge through to the University of Ottawa. There are three videos in this series. Made by Friends of the O Train. April 2009. Ottawa, Canada.

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  • Multi-car trains with wide doors can load people faster and more efficiently than multitudes of single destination buses.

    Currently people spent too much time running around looking for their bus. This makes boarding slow and inefficient.

    Therefore, if people board faster, then the trains move quicker !

    Trains use priority signaling to get through intersection first i.e. before traffic. This has been done for years all around the world and some buses use this same technique on Woodroffe.

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  • The weakpoint is that traffic jams would delay the train line. Calgary has a system like this. It is not bad, but a far superior system would be to go either below or above the streets so that traffic accidents, people running red lights, parades, demonstrations, etc., would not disrupt the system.

  • How does putting trains on a bus street reduce the traffic volume on those streets at rush hour? The same volume of travelers must still be moved. How does surface level tranist speed up the movement of transit, trains would still have to contend with the same traffic signals as buses do

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