A late summer's ride on Ottawa's O-Train Line 1 from Blair to Tunney's Pasture Station (2024 - Rear)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- On September 14, 2019, the first phase of the O-Train Confederation Line opened between Blair and Tunney's Pasture. Now, you can experience the O-Train from home! Enjoy this rear-view perspective of the ride as we travel westbound, leaving from Blair. This ride was filmed in mid-August 2024.
The ride captured in this video was operated at a slower speed in some areas due to Temporary Speed Restrictions (TSR). It is approximately 4 minutes and 10 seconds longer than it would be at full line speed.
The O-Train uses Alstom Citadis Spirit LRVs that use semi-automation (GoA2), with an electric rail operator on board. In 2025, the line will be extended east to Trim in Orleans and to Moodie and Algonquin in 2026 to the west.
Video by Shane Seguin
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Every time I ride it I'm sad. It could have been a good system with better planning and more money. What we have is a metro because it's grade-separated and the wrong vehicles are used. It's also slower than systems in other cities, for example from Cyrville to St. Laurent. Imagine how good our system would be if it used Alstom's Metropolis cars like the REM. As an Ottawan, I can only dream of what it could have been like...
sometimes not every transit system is great at the start
I love the o train , thanks to all the engineers and workers who made this possible. Ottawa is such a beautiful and peaceful city and the go train makes it possible to enjoy the views to the fullest.
Great job keeps it up❤
Thanks. We will.
Temporary Speed Restrictions more like Forever Speed Restrictions 😔 Remaining hopeful we get better leadership that will actually take ownership and fix this mess.
@alexitanguay well there two solutions replace the rails but still won't be fast cause is a tramway not a metro train 2 is to replace to heavy train like in Montrail rem but they will have to retrofit all the stations level up to a 1 meter deep from plataform to rail that's a lot of money.
The issue is all the curves between St-Laurent and Lees stations. Changing the rails or vehicles does nothing to change that. The TSRs will be removed but that is at the city's discretion to do, whether it takes a few more weeks or they wait another couple years until a permanent solution to the axle issue is developed and installed (the mitigations they have in place currently apparently allow for the TSRs to be removed but they seem to be erring on the side of caution by keeping them). The good news is that outside of that area (St-Laurent to Lees), the rest can operate at higher speed, and the extensions east and west contain few curves and mostly straights, so it will operate at high speeds for most of the trip.
This doesn’t hold a candle to BC sky train network 🤣🤣🤣
And line two will be a let down for many when they see how much longer it takes to get to the airport from downtown