Improving Carleton U Platform for the O Train

This short video shows how the O Train platform at Carleton University in Ottawa can be improved by the simple addition of two extra points of entry/exit (ingress/egress) so that congestion at the single point of entry can be reduced.

Since the O Train has three sets of doors it only makes sense that there should be entry and exit points on the platform that match the location of the doors on the O Train.

Tim Lane and David Jeans of Transport 2000 are the commentators. Michael Kostiuk is taking the video

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[sawmiller50]

I should have made my previous comment a bit

more forceful.

I should have said:

So the argument that they can ONLY have ONE exit,

to "force" people past the ticket machine, doesn't

hold water anymore. :>)

[sawmiller50]

The track upgrades in summer 2010 included moving the ticket

machines farther outside the platform entrances.

So the argument that they need only one exit, to

"force" people past the ticket machine, doesn't hold water

anymore. :>)

[Jimbothy]

What they need to do is to build an enclosed walkway OVER the train. What I mean is, the current tunnel they have under the tracks is fenced further and causes a delay for those on the Res/Eng/Uni side if they want to catch the Northbound train. I've seen many a person miss the train by seconds because of this. If they put a crossing over the tracks it would bridge the two platforms meaning easier crossing than the current under the tracks method.

[ottawagut]

Fare inspectors have also been seen standing and waiting on either side of that small passage and asking for proof of payment as they exit. I guess they would like to keep it harder to exit so they only need two inspectors at a time pull off that trick.

[blueberry111611]

Very interesting video, and you have some good points, but I really think that your last point (everyone must past by the ticket machine) is key. There's no way that they are going to add another ticket machine at a second entrance to the platform and I'm sure that OC Transpo would like to keep people from being on the platform without paying (as you said).

[Condorcounter]

When is the city going to realize that the O-Train is a success and needs to be enhanced and extended now? Meanwhile they make plans for a high-risk, expensive tunnel they cannot get funding for and will take a decade to complete.

[fatmoleman]

Carleton U is against free speech and that really is too bad.

This just in. Canada soon to be next U.S. State.

[sawmiller50]

Mr. Geographer:

Another EXCELLENT job.

We should do one on Slater and Albert

Streets, to show that, contrary to certain

highly-overpaid experts' opinion, surface

ELRT WOULD work in downtown Ottawa,

and there is room in nearly every block

for a THREE vehicle LRT train station, to handle projected passenger loads to 2031.