Reading Time: 4 minutesAs Ottawa’s transit network expands, the question remains: will these changes truly address the challenges faced by those who rely on it most?
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOttawa city councillor Jeff Leiper tabled a motion to bring LRT service from the current 10 minute wait, back to five minutes. This motion will be voted on at the city council meeting on Sept. 18.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEngineering professor Braughken Axel sent out an email to his ENG1104 students on Aug. 31 to inform them that the first week of classes will be held in an O-Train car.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor now, OC Transpo is still studying the feasibility of same-day on-demand booking and 24-hour hour booking and service. “The budget factors into that,” added Councillor Gower. He stressed though, that Para-Transpo was not affected by any cuts due to the City of Ottawa’s deficit.
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou don’t need to live on or near campus to find your community at the University of Ottawa, and here’s why.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The mayor’s office has reached out to say that they are planning to reimburse Carleton students and uOttawa students the cost of the December portion of the U-Pass cost,” said Tim Gulliver, the University of Ottawa Students’ Union president.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere I was, sitting in a dark basement in a fold-up chair, gazing into a webcam placed at an angle so low that, if it actually boasted of good camera quality, would be able to serve as a scope of my nostrils.
Reading Time: 4 minutesFollowing the two-year anniversary of Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit system, some recent issues with the system have the public — including students — concerned for the future.
Reading Time: 5 minutesSonder is the humbling realization that, despite all your efforts to master the main character cocktail, everyone is the main character of their own lives.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a meme about the LRT to get you over your case of the Mondays!
Reading Time: 2 minutes“DIN–DIN–DIN–DING!” said the Confederation Line.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOC Transpo’s notification system for when issues appear on the city’s new LRT line isn’t always the fastest, but fear not: A local software programmer has developed a website to keep Ottawa commuters in the loop, in real-time.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I also want to reassure residents that these LRT issues are being taken extremely seriously. Finding solutions to these problems continues to be the number one priority at City Hall,” said Mayor Jim Watson in a press release.
Reading Time: 2 minutesInside the pros and cons of the new LRT and service changes to OC Transpo bus routes.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter six years of construction and four major delays, Ottawa’s largest transportation project since the Rideau Canal is finally complete. We rode the rails on opening day and heard early evaluations of the new system.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOC Transpo is cutting or merging 86 bus routes next month, which will make commuters even more dependent on the smooth functioning of the transportation system.
Reading Time: 2 minutesO-Train Confederation Line has 13 stations, including one stop on the University of Ottawa campus and another at the Rideau Centre.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe region has undergone a building boom as the city contends with a tight rental market, a growing tourism industry, and an overloaded transit system.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe unassuming consortium won the bid to build the new line back in 2012 to an unspectacular public reaction. However, look behind the curtain, and the RTG’s past starts to catch up to it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen it opens, students can expect to see artwork while waiting for the LRT.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat we saw was astounding. We found loads of professional-grade concert speakers set up all over the site, hooked up to one guy’s laptop playing “Epic Construction Ruckus Medley—10-hour Version” on YouTube.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Monday, Sept. 10, John Manconi, the head of OC Transpo, shared with city councillors the news that the opening of the LRT Confederation Line has been delayed to 2019.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOzturk’s recent study, “An optimization model for freight transport using urban rail transit,” published in the European Journal of Operations Research examines how freight on transit (FOT), the practice of transporting freights using the public transit network, could be optimized in countries in order to eliminate greenhouse gases.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe novel is set in a near-future Ottawa in which corporations are phasing out the public sector, and conspiracies abound. Following the death of the CEO of the titular Omphalos Corporation, Detective Beldon seeks to find the killer, driven by a suspicion that the company is connected to the events of the previous novel.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the long run the most environmentally sustainable option is to have efficient and effective mass transit that encourages residents of Ottawa to leave their cars at home. The City has already said that it plans on dismantling part of the platform when it will no longer be needed and allowing the site to revert back to greenspace.
