Another Route done!

I've been waiting for a good weather day to catch this route before the new train line opens 😁 Finally caught it.

https://youtu.be/AGDWixOlUT0

#ottawa #masstransit #bus #olrt #octranspo #canada #busroute

So many people I hear in this city are like
'OMG it's snowing. The train is going to break'

So during the big snow storm yesterday instead of going home after work I went to the train and rode it back and forth from Hurdman to Blair and back and it was just fine.

I honestly would much rather be on a train or a bus in weather like that..

https://youtu.be/7zXYbcxZcLc

#Ottawa #otrain #canada #olrt #winterStorm #snowstorm #train #masstransit #publictransit #HDR #ARTFILM #PanasonicLumix

https://youtu.be/F8dWQuG8aIg

Can you believe it, the O-Train used to make it all the way from Tunney's Pasture to Blair in less than 24 minutes..?! I had to re-watch the video to make sure there were no long missing parts because the video is so short and I was doubting my memory. The skip at 17:17 is about 2-3 seconds long at the most and is from my phone camera splitting the video file into 2 pieces.

The horrific metal squealing noise at 7:35 and 8:58 apparently is not supposed to happen and was an indicator of excessive wearing on the rails that was causing damage. Currently they go much slower at this section. This was also before they started running shorter trains during so called 'low' periods..

This is an old video from June 2022.. Back when the train was fast..
Shot in 4k60p with the Pixel 7 pro (A horrible phone do not buy pixel phones)
The ticking noise is my Radiacode 101 pocket gamma spectrometer & radiation dosimeter.

#ottawa #Otrain #canada #OcTranspo #OLRT MassTransit #trains

As you may know the train is broken again..
From Blair to Tunney's took 1 hr and 25 minutes From Tunney's to Blair took 1 hr and 1 minute
https://youtu.be/OTTWgUzJfTg

#OcTranspo #ottawa #ottnews #onpoli #massTransit #olrt #timelapse #HDR #Canada

So the 'white stuff' finally came to #Ottawa today.

My plans for the annual trip to the #office to jack in to the network for overdue updates will not happen today.

My general rule, even though I love #snow: Don't leave your house on the #FirstDayOfSnow in Ottawa. Somehow our collective IQ drops. We forget how to drive, sidewalks are treaterous, #OCtranspo busses transform into monsters and the #OLRT steel railway turns into snakes

This too shall pass and in a couple of days we will be ok.