Confederation Line (Stage 1) | In Service 1.0

[Kitchissippi]

Personally, I think this bridge was ill-conceived. If I had my druthers I would have put it slightly to the east in line between the stadium and the Canadian Tire, with a gradual straight ramp and pathway directly towards Coventry and perpendicular stairs toward the stadium. That would have made the bridge shorter, too, not going over the Queensway off-ramp.

BTW, one of the main the reasons for covering and glazing the bridge is to prevent people from throwing objects (or themselves) onto the Queensway, so the ramps and stairs being exposed is the least of a road engineer's problem

[rocketphish]

Construction Update
Week of October 19

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Scott Street Widening

Crews work installing traffic poles and signals. O-Train platform relocation begins. Surrounding multi-use pathways construction is ongoing.

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Lyon Station

Crews finalize the installation of the umbrella in the station cavern. Jawbreaker excavates the north and south elevator pockets and continues mining the station cavern in drifts.

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Lyon Station East and West Entrance

East Entrance: crews complete cabling and slab work at the lower level parking elevators. Concrete work and rebar installations occur for the parking elevator.

West Entrance: Crews continue drilling piles and steel reinforcements.

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Parliament Station Cavern

Crews install formwork in the tunnel transition moving west toward Lyon Station and install the umbrella in the station cavern. Chewrocka continues mining the cavern’s central pillar.

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Rideau Station

Crews install rebar and waterproof the running tunnel. Preparations begin to construct the invert in the next weeks. Reinforcements of the station cavern occur and include installing rockbolts and wire mesh.

Crocodile Rouge completes a section of the bench and mining of the cavern continues in drifts.

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Rideau Station East and West Entrance

East Entrance: line drilling occurs for rock excavation. Crews continue blasting operations, followed by rock excavation. Blasting is ongoing through winter.

West Entrance: the installation of piles is ongoing at the future station entrance. Rebar installation and pouring of concrete piles occur.

Traffic restrictions on Rideau Street remain in effect.

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uOttawa Station

Crews continue installing the utility corridor in sections, in front of the University of Ottawa buildings along Nicholas Street. Work includes excavation, installation of the corridor and backfilling.

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Tremblay, St-Laurent, Cyrville and Blair Stations

Crews set-up equipment and drive piles for shoring at Tremblay Station. Platform slab removals occur at St-Laurent Station. Crews pour footings and walls, and excavate along the north side of Cyrville Station. Foundation excavation continues at Blair Station.

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Guideway– Booth Street Bridge

Crews continue pouring the panels for the north abutment.

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Guideway– Hurdman Station

Crews complete formwork, begin pouring the deck, and construct the piers for the elevated guideway. Rebar and formwork installation occurs on the deck of the structure east of the station. Preparatory demolition work for the existing bus loop begins.

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Guideway– Tremblay Station

Backfilling, rebar and formwork installation begin on the abutments for the road east of VIA Rail Station.

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Guideway– St-Laurent, Cyrville and Blair Stations

Final welding operations occur and ballast installation begins on the guideway from Blair Station to just past Cyrville Station. Crews also pull rail strings and mobilize to install overhead catenary poles from Blair Station moving westward. Grading and duct bank installations continue from west of Cyrville to St-Laurent stations.

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Belfast Yard Administration and Maintenance Building and Yard

Work inside the building includes installation of platforms/equipment, and final flooring and electrical. Exterior metal panels are being completed and decorative bollard installations begin. Final backfilling at the retaining pond, curb, sidewalks, light bases, south side landscaping, welding operations and track installations occur in the yard.

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Belfast Yard Vehicle Storage Shed and Connector Works

Final paving begins in the shed. At the connector, crews continue backfilling, installing the roof, constructing vents and begin installing rebar for trackwork. Work to relocate the watermain is ongoing on Tremblay Road.

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Upcoming Construction Activities

In the coming weeks, the following construction activities are scheduled to occur:

• Parliament Station entrance utilities relocations.
• Demolition of the former Hurdman Station bus structure.
• Installation of girders on the remaining Hurdman Station elevated guideway columns.
• Assembly of Alstom Citadis light rail vehicles.

In the coming months:

• Lyon Station west entrance blasting operations.
• Lyon Station east entrance and west shaft construction.

http://www.ligneconfederationline.ca/construction/construction-update-45/

[Abe Simpson]

Track is actually getting laid down!!!

[eltodesukane]

Originally Posted by Kitchissippi

...
BTW, one of the main the reasons for covering and glazing the bridge is to prevent people from throwing objects (or themselves) onto the Queensway, ...

Yet the South Keys Airport Parkway pedestrian bridge is not covered.
I'm just waiting for someone to throw bricks (or worse) at some foreign president or diplomats driving from the airport to the parliament. It's just something waiting to happens.

[Catenary]

Originally Posted by eltodesukane

Yet the South Keys Airport Parkway pedestrian bridge is not covered.
I'm just waiting for someone to throw bricks (or worse) at some foreign president or diplomats driving from the airport to the parliament. It's just something waiting to happens.

It's the MTO that encloses their bridges, clearly the city thought it wasn't worth it. It's really no different than any other road bridge in the city. If someone wanted to throw stones at those diplomats in the past they could have used Walkley Road or Bank street.

[hwy418]

Originally Posted by eltodesukane

"The ramp is there so that you don't have to get off your bicycle and carry it up the stairs, but it also allows pedestrians the option of going up (or down) via either means from the same point."
Not so on the other side.
And why the ramps are not covered like the bridge itself?
And why the bridge doesn't connect to the stadium?
And why the bridge doesn't connect to the train station?
Seems like obvious things to do.

This is because only a portion of the north side ramps were built - construction was scaled back because of $$$. The original plan was to only cross Highway 417 so one would have to cross Tremblay Road and walk all the way to the train station via the D-link road. I think what is now built is a very good compromise compared to what was originally planned.

[Kitchissippi]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

from Aerialphotographs.ca Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/aerialphotograp...7819732/1049360858436916/?type=3&theater

Funny how this is more up to date than the latest update. The black-trussed walkway in front of the station is already gone.

Amazing how fast they've gone on Hurdman, it shows how much easier it is to build above grade.

[DEWLine]

Seeing that aerial shot of the Train station of the Transitway demolished...feeling just a little heartbreak looking at that one.

[DEWLine]

Originally Posted by Abe Simpson

Track is actually getting laid down!!!

Yes, it is...

[Kitchissippi]

A little lack of coordination? They've had to wrap the newly installed glass on the Rideau Centre with clingy blue plastic (construction grade saran wrap ? ), likely to keep it from shattering during blasting operations



Cyrville Station progress as of yesterday:



old Train T'way station almost all gone:

[YOWetal]

Are those condos next to Cyrville station going to increase in value, or is Ottawa still a ways away from the subway effect? I tend to think if they called it a Subway/Metro it would help. LRT is a bit more nebulous for most people.

[rocketphish]

Originally Posted by YOWetal

Are those condos next to Cyrville station going to increase in value, or is Ottawa still a ways away from the subway effect? I tend to think if they called it a Subway/Metro it would help. LRT is a bit more nebulous for most people.

Once it's up and running it will simply be called the O-Train. (almost) Nobody will know or care what technology it employs.

[rocketphish]

Confederation Line Newsletter – Fall 2015, with some station renderings and other info.

[acottawa]

Nice to see some up-to-date renders. Not sure I understand the logic of leaving platforms mostly uncovered.

[Kitchissippi]

I also snooped outside fence near the storage shed, they have tracks laid inside and out on the yard.

[Kitchissippi]

Cool photo of the concrete forms from Ottawa's twitter feed:

[HighwayStar]

Originally Posted by acottawa

Nice to see some up-to-date renders. Not sure I understand the logic of leaving platforms mostly uncovered.

Someone, somewhere mentioned it was so the stations would not be "too comfortable", lest someone decide to "loiter" for an extended period of time.

However, I have no idea of the validity of that statement.

[acottawa]

Originally Posted by HighwayStar

Someone, somewhere mentioned it was so the stations would not be "too comfortable", lest someone decide to "loiter" for an extended period of time.

However, I have no idea of the validity of that statement.

That's a little weird, it is a proof of payment system. Who cares if somebody wants to pay $3 to hang out on the platform.

I wonder if the consortium just took an existing design from one of their projects in Europe, where an exposed platform makes more sense.

[JM1]

Open platforms are a real problem for Ottawa in the winter -- think of the need to clear snow and ice, the potential for someone to slip onto the tracks, and the excessive amount of salt they will undoubtedly use will age the interior of the trains and makes for a less comfortable ride.

Originally Posted by acottawa

That's a little weird, it is a proof of payment system. Who cares if somebody wants to pay $3 to hang out on the platform.

I wonder if the consortium just took an existing design from one of their projects in Europe, where an exposed platform makes more sense.

[MalcolmTucker]

Originally Posted by HighwayStar

Someone, somewhere mentioned it was so the stations would not be "too comfortable", lest someone decide to "loiter" for an extended period of time.

However, I have no idea of the validity of that statement.

Ottawa doesn't have a city Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) policy?