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Originally Posted by Kitchissippi
Surface tram routes where the Citadis can be redeployed if we get full 120m length transets
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What would you use to replace the Citadis? Are you proposing to use 120m trains on your tram routes or the existing trains on these routes? If the Citadis are built out to 120m in the future it will because the demand is there to support it. That means probably all trains will be the 120m length. If you are talking about replacing the Citadis with heavy metro cars you will probably require modifications to the tunnels and stations to support the wider vehicles. If the metro vehicles are 120m long then why replace the Citadis for the few extra people a metro train would carry. What we need to increase capacity is to increase frequency since this is the lowest cost option. We need 15 trains running on the line to do this.
Straightening out the track alignment in the east end between the Rideau River bridge and junction to the maintenance yard would also speed up transit times and increase equipment utilization. Most of this would be costly and difficult to do while continuing to operate the Confederation line.
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