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he/they | arbiter of truth for transit in the NCR | opinions are my own and objectively correct 100% of the time | follow for unqualified speculations find me elsewhere: https://alex-is.online

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alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 3h

Carling gets full BRT now Jim we can’t be asking for just bus lanes now

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OC Transpo @octranspo.com · 1d

🚆 Progress continues on the O-Train East & West extensions!

🔧 East: Finishing touches at all stations

🛠️ West: Guideway, stations & roadwork underway

👀 Check it out!

#OttTransit #Stage2LRT

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 5d

Spreadsheet looks like it would’ve been made by someone very smart and good looking

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 7d

He’s already announced he’s running!

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 7d

THE #JEFFSWEEP IS IN FULL EFFECT

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 7d

Remain calm
Jeff Leiper Patriots are in control

Jeff Leiper 🛴🚲🚇♻️🚌📊 @jleiper.bsky.social · 7d

Across Ottawa, from fairs and markets to townhalls and meetings, I’ve been hearing the same thing: people are frustrated and want a new direction for our city. We need a city that works, with reliable transit, strong services, repaired roads and community centres.

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Transit Ottawa @transitottawa.bsky.social · 13d

On 11 September, staff presented a Stage 2 update to Transit Committee.

#Ottawa #OCTranspo #Stage2

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Stage 2 Update (Transit Committee) - 11 September, 2025

At Transit Committee, staff presented a Stage 2 update to council. This was a truncated version, due to time constraints, so this article wi...

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alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 13d

The choice is a tramway down Wellington or continue to scale STO bus service to demand and have a higher peak number of buses per hour crossing Portage and into downtown than was ever seen on the peak of the Transitway. The road network and bridges do not have the capacity for one of these choices

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 13d

This is not a project for Ottawa, it’s not a project to make getting around downtown easier for Ottawans, it is explicitly to meet capacity needs for Aylmer/Plateau transit users. Wellington is planned to be pedestrianized regardless if the tram exists or not

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 13d

Wellington is not the destination, it’s work downtown. Most STO commuters are taking the bus to downtown Hull or downtown Ottawa, and not transferring to another bus or system to go further into the city. The goal of the tram is not to make Wellington an attractive tourist destination

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 14d

The tramway in Gatineau is meant to address near future capacity concerns through a bottleneck, not really travel times or reliability. Continuous bus lanes east of St Laurent and queue jumps+signal priority west of it would carry most of/more benefit than a tram for significantly less cost

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 14d

Along Rideau and Montreal (west of St Laurent) there unfortunately is not enough room in the right of way to permit for a travel lane in each direction and a dedicated tramway corridor in the centre with dedicated platforms. Similar setup to TTC streetcars, expensive and almost no real benefit

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 14d

The Confederation Boulevard Planning and Design Guidelines released today is available here: ncc-website-2.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Su...

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 14d

I am not sure what the planned connection between the Rideau/Wellington cycle track and the Elgin cycling tracks looks like so I invented one. I think it minimizes as much conflict as possible

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 14d

Downtown active transportation and tramway plan based on the TMP and the Confederation Boulevard design guidelines released by the NCC today

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 22d

I’m thoroughly convinced it’s a typo but it’s been persistent across 2 different sources so I feel I have to include it as it is

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 22d

Not always. I don't have the speeds everywhere written but it will vary depending on the track geometry and location. The yellow shows the original speed -> revised speed, so there are lots of places that are normally less than 80kmh

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 22d

Additional TSRs come and go so this will not be always accurate, but these ones will remain in place indefinitely- likely when an acceptable wheel hub/axle fix is implemented on the Line 1 LRVs

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 22d

Diagram of all current indefinite Temporary Speed Restrictions in effect on Line 1. This info has not been public but I finally got an MFIPPA released recently so I can share this. All TSRs except the ones at the ends are at the request of Alstom, and have been in place since the LRT inquiry in 2022

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Patrick @obike.ca · 25d

#ottbike I have officially released a new version of my Ottawa cycle map website Obike.ca

You are now able to click on projects for more information, it will highlight the project scope, along with displaying a preview image. Can then also view a project page with images and designs of the project

Ottawa's future cycling infrastructure mapped, now with project pages with design documents and images

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 28d

At Gladstone/Bronson, the one intersection in the study area you'd have to make caution with, the smallest width of the ROW is ~18.5 meters, and you can comfortably fit the existing left turn lane with sidewalks, traffic lanes, and cycle tracks in 18 meters.

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · 28d

What would cycle tracks do to add to the travel time of the 14? You’d start with 2 general traffic lanes and end with 2 general traffic lanes. If anything, the bus would be sped up if island/bulb out stops were added so that the bus doesn’t need to pull out of and merge back into general traffic

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · Sep 4

I assume the airport had complained because without the bus that ran there before you left a bunch of workers and people flying in/out early/late without a transit option to get from the airport

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · Sep 4

The demand for the route is high enough to warrant it because Line 2 and 4 do not start early and/or end late enough for a large portion of workers and users at the airport, and additionally, taking Line 1, 2 then 4 to get to the airport from the east end is indirect and takes forever

alex 🇨🇦🍉 @alex-is.online · Sep 4

Human Transit has a good read here that explains most of it pretty well humantransit.org/2018/02/basi...

Basics: The Ridership - Coverage Tradeoff — Human Transit

Is your transit agency succeeding? It depends on what it’s trying to do, and most transit agencies haven’t been given clear direction about what they should be trying to do. This post revisits a basi...

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