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Originally Posted by Joseph Potvin
Not at all. We're just confident that professional transportation planning staff of the City of Ottawa, and the taxpayers of Ottawa (and of Canada), will see a straightforward way to improve overall transit system performance with high-capacity trains on that line.
Do you have in mind some reason(s) that the city staff or its citizens ought to maintain low capacity at the centre?
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I'm pretty sure the current Trillium Line expansion plan for 2021 is to double the length of the trains.
I'd also say one of the biggest problems with the Trillium line currently (other than capacity) is efficiency. The Coradia LINTs are designed as (European) regional / inter-city trains, not so much for rapid transit. Loading/Unloading the trains is pretty slow since there are only two (relatively narrow) doors per train. Trying to get a train full of university students in a timely manner through those doors just doesn't work and causes big delays. I'm not sure that even higher capacity bi-level trains can solve that problem...
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