Can Carling Avenue Permit 6-car trains?

The consultants are proposing 180 m station platform length for the downtown
tunnel stations. This is longer than any existing transitway station
platforms, which are at most 150 m long.

5-car trains would have provided plenty of future capacity and this is what
Calgary is rebuilding its stations to permit. Also the true length of a
6-car LRT is more like 175 m.

Nevertheless I have shown 180 m long stations at the following locations:
Lincoln Fields, Carlingwood, Broadview, Churchill, Westgate/Royal Ottawa,
Civic Hospital, Carling/Dows Lake, and Gladstone.

Three of these, (Broadview, Churchill, and the Civic Hospital), could have
split stations with one narrower platform for a far-side stop at each
intersection. This reduces the width of the station and simplifies traffic
light priority.

All stations west of Dows Lake would have surface platforms, with at-grade
signalled or subway pedestrian crossings to adjacent properties at each end
of the platform.

There are a few places where intersections are too close to fit a 6-car LRT
between them. As proposed by Morrison Renfrew, these would be signalled in
pairs as unified intersections for LRT priority, (example: Woodroffe North
to Woodroffe South)

You can see why the Civic Hospital property beside Carling Station is
critical. Without it the curves have to be tighter radius than 120 m, which
should be avoided.

David Jeanes









I did not show the Bayview situation. This is not what the consultants have
proposed, but the red north-south platform could connect for pedestrians to
the Tom Brown Arena and to Somerset via Breezehill.

The yellow platforms would be for interchange between east-west and north
south but they are not important, as all such transfers could be made more
conveniently at Lebreton station at the cost of less than a minute of extra
travel without stopping at Bayview.

David Jeanes

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This plan has received a lot of criticism.

This plan has received a lot of criticism. Many people have asked questions, and not received useful answers. The consultants for this plan are the same as for the previous plan.

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Carling is now known as

Carling is now known as Ottawa Road # 38, but the road used to be 17B east of 642-845 Richmond Road until the Ontario government 70-294 downloaded the road to local government. Until the 1970s, the western part of the Carling also part of Highway 17.In all years from 2004 to 2007, Carling Avenue has been named one of the worst roads in Ontario 20 CAA
642-453 survey, citing frequent beatings and bumps. Construction is under way through certain parts of it.

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Carling Avenue Permit 6-car trains

City transit planning officials had originally planned to look only at the Ottawa River Parkway and a nearby former tramway corridor running along Byron Avenue as possible western rapid-transit link to the planned light rail system from Bayview to Baseline Station php web hosting.

Carling Avenue was going to be looked at separately as a residential light-rail route.

However, after concern was raised on council and in the public over running trains along the parkway (concerns include the effect on nearby residents and whether the federal government will permit trains on the land it owns) web hosting frontpage, the area to be studied was expanded to determine whether the Carling route could serve. The debate about whether to choose Carling over the Parkway has been one of the most heated aspects of the current transit plan discussions, second perhaps to Ottawa's downtown tunnel. Several months ago, we published an article regarding the merits of running light-rail along Carling Avenue, but the Ottawa River Parkway has merits of its own--most notably the cost asp web hosting. Should the city obtain permission from the National Capital Commission to run rail along the Parkway (far from a sure thing, at this point), that line would cost an estimated one-third of what rail along Carling Avenue would cost (EDIT: Referring to the initial construction costs, that is, not the associated operating costs of any finished rail line).

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