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The city will unveil at 1 p.m. Thursday a full-sized mock-up of the Alstom Citadis Spirit light rail vehicle, complete with OC Transpo customized design features, that will, in a few short years, transport thousands of residents between Tunney’s Pasture and Blair station.
As Mayor Jim Watson said in his state of the city speech Wednesday: “You will be able to not only see the train, but feel the train. You will be able to sit inside, look out the windows and get your first experience of the Confederation Line.”
Politicians of every stripe — including Watson, MP Royal Galipeau and provincial Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca and, no doubt, city councillors — will attend the formal affair at Lansdowne Park’s Aberdeen Pavilion.
As of Friday, the public can view the light rail vehicle between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. until the end of March.
The system won’t be fully operational until 2018.
Here, from the Citizen’s files, is some info about the new trains to whet your appetite or jog your memory until the big reveal.
From a Dec. 6, 2012 story by David Reevely and Neco Cockburn:
The city is poised to award the biggest construction contract in its history to a consortium led by ACS Infrastructure, but Mayor Jim Watson made it clear Wednesday that he expects the project to be his legacy.
In a heavily stage-managed production at City Hall on Wednesday morning, full of dramatic lighting and brave rhetoric, Watson boasted that the Spanish-led consortium called Rideau Tran-sit Group will deliver the project as planned by 2018, just as he hopes to be finishing his second term as mayor. At $2.13 billion – a fixed price, solid and guaranteed barring some massive disaster – the price is within a rounding error of the $2.115-billion estimate city council signed off on in its last big vote on the project in July 2011.
It’s what Watson has promised and clearly he intends to deliver it. And nothing more.
A station outside the National Arts Centre, as some had hoped would be restored in the big announcement? Not there. The “Downtown East” station, which the rail planners considered moving east from Queen and O’Connor after moving the NAC station to the Rideau Centre, is staying put, too. Moving it would be too expensive. The city is contemplating an enclosed walkway that would connect the arts centre to the Rideau Centre, though.
Will the line be running in time for Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017? Not exactly. Major downtown construction is to be finished and the three downtown stations open for tours, if visitors care to take them, but the only rolling trains will be between Hurdman and Blair stations. They’ll be on tryout schedules, open to the public but not ready for commuters.
What happened to the curving roofs and wooden cladding the city showed off in its last showcase of station designs?
Those are mostly gone, replaced by more flat tops, edges, metal and concrete at the hands of Ottawa architect Ritchard Brisbin. Some of the design grace notes are still there – wood from ash trees killed by voracious emerald ash borers remains in a lot of accents – but the overall esthetic is more angular, cool and functional than it used to be.
“I’m happy with the stations. I really like the pedestrian access,” said Somerset Coun. Diane Holmes, whose ward includes the busiest stations. “The downtown ones are integrated into buildings, which is going to be really useful … The stations are very attractive, well lit, easily accessible.”
And from a Dec. 6 fact box about the train:
Name: Alstom Citadis.
Capacity: Each car as shown here holds 300 passengers. It can run as a single car or can be joined with others. They are fully accessible, featuring entrances level with station platforms.
Length: 49 metres.
Number: 30 vehicles would operate with a peak capacity of 10,700 passengers per hour in each direction.
Speed: Top speed is 100 km/h. The system can run trains as often at one minute and 45 seconds.
Travel time: 24 minutes from Tunney’s Pasture to Blair station.
Manufacturer: Alstom, based in France. Trains would be assembled in Ottawa. Alstom has sold more than 1,500 similar cars to more than 40 cities since 1997.
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As Mayor Jim Watson said in his state of the city speech Wednesday: “You will be able to not only see the train, but feel the train. You will be able to sit inside, look out the windows and get your first experience of the Confederation Line.”
Politicians of every stripe — including Watson, MP Royal Galipeau and provincial Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca and, no doubt, city councillors — will attend the formal affair at Lansdowne Park’s Aberdeen Pavilion.
As of Friday, the public can view the light rail vehicle between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. until the end of March.
The system won’t be fully operational until 2018.
Here, from the Citizen’s files, is some info about the new trains to whet your appetite or jog your memory until the big reveal.
From a Dec. 6, 2012 story by David Reevely and Neco Cockburn:
The city is poised to award the biggest construction contract in its history to a consortium led by ACS Infrastructure, but Mayor Jim Watson made it clear Wednesday that he expects the project to be his legacy.
In a heavily stage-managed production at City Hall on Wednesday morning, full of dramatic lighting and brave rhetoric, Watson boasted that the Spanish-led consortium called Rideau Tran-sit Group will deliver the project as planned by 2018, just as he hopes to be finishing his second term as mayor. At $2.13 billion – a fixed price, solid and guaranteed barring some massive disaster – the price is within a rounding error of the $2.115-billion estimate city council signed off on in its last big vote on the project in July 2011.
It’s what Watson has promised and clearly he intends to deliver it. And nothing more.
A station outside the National Arts Centre, as some had hoped would be restored in the big announcement? Not there. The “Downtown East” station, which the rail planners considered moving east from Queen and O’Connor after moving the NAC station to the Rideau Centre, is staying put, too. Moving it would be too expensive. The city is contemplating an enclosed walkway that would connect the arts centre to the Rideau Centre, though.
Will the line be running in time for Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017? Not exactly. Major downtown construction is to be finished and the three downtown stations open for tours, if visitors care to take them, but the only rolling trains will be between Hurdman and Blair stations. They’ll be on tryout schedules, open to the public but not ready for commuters.
What happened to the curving roofs and wooden cladding the city showed off in its last showcase of station designs?
Those are mostly gone, replaced by more flat tops, edges, metal and concrete at the hands of Ottawa architect Ritchard Brisbin. Some of the design grace notes are still there – wood from ash trees killed by voracious emerald ash borers remains in a lot of accents – but the overall esthetic is more angular, cool and functional than it used to be.
“I’m happy with the stations. I really like the pedestrian access,” said Somerset Coun. Diane Holmes, whose ward includes the busiest stations. “The downtown ones are integrated into buildings, which is going to be really useful … The stations are very attractive, well lit, easily accessible.”
And from a Dec. 6 fact box about the train:
Name: Alstom Citadis.
Capacity: Each car as shown here holds 300 passengers. It can run as a single car or can be joined with others. They are fully accessible, featuring entrances level with station platforms.
Length: 49 metres.
Number: 30 vehicles would operate with a peak capacity of 10,700 passengers per hour in each direction.
Speed: Top speed is 100 km/h. The system can run trains as often at one minute and 45 seconds.
Travel time: 24 minutes from Tunney’s Pasture to Blair station.
Manufacturer: Alstom, based in France. Trains would be assembled in Ottawa. Alstom has sold more than 1,500 similar cars to more than 40 cities since 1997.
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