From the Transitway to the O-Train: An Overview of Stage 2’s Western Expansion

O-Train Line 1 (Stage 1) opened on September 14, 2019, and featured 13 stations from Blair in the east to Tunney’s Pasture in the west. The O-Train is quickly being expanded to add additional service coverage in the East, West and South of Ottawa, in a project called Stage 2 LRT. This video will provide an overview of the Western Extension of O-Train Line 1, which will extend service West of Tunney’s Pasture station to Moodie (near Kanata) and Algonquin (in Nepean).
Stage 2 will see O-Train Line 1 split into two lines, Line 1 and Line 3. The main difference will be west of Lincoln Fields station where the line splits into two: Line 1, which continues to Algonquin Station to the Southwest, and Line 3, which continues to Moodie Station to the west. This line extension will be 15km in length and add 11 stations to Line 1 and Line 3. An interesting particularity of this segment is that it will feature several tunnel segments in the alignment. Once completed, local bus routes will be realigned to directly serve the nearest O-Train station, thereby providing a quick and convenient connection to the O-Train and the rest of the city.
View our latest snapshot updates of O-Train Stage 2 and learn how you can share your pictures with us by visiting otrain.railfan...
Video by Shane Seguin
Drone photos by Patrick McKay (Twitter @PatrickTMcKay)
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[@GD-mf7mn]

I can’t wait for stage 2 to be complete! It’ll be a MAJOR game changer for the city!

[@rislingpodiumperformance]

yup right up until a door jams or the plastic train breaks or a steel wheel gets flat and the entire system breaks during rush hour. Hopefully they get rid of the construction scaffolding at hurdman as that looks like crap for a billion dollar system, poor design

[@Bluenoser613]

@@rislingpodiumperformance imagine the fun when they have to run R1 buses for the whole length of the system from Kanata to Orleans. Total shit show.

[@rislingpodiumperformance]

@@Bluenoser613 you mean the old 95+96?? haha

[@PoserBallin]

@@rislingpodiumperformance Many more of the Billions of Dollars of road infrastruction in our city also looks like crap and is almost always backed up with traffic delays. Its good to keep these things in context and the ultimate upside to having a proper transit system in place. Its a process and wont be perfect over night, but we are moving in a much better direction.

[@rislingpodiumperformance]

@@PoserBallin by nearly every metric, we have not moved in the right direction at all. City Council has even had to admit that OC is at piss poor performance on many main roots. They tout "90%+ performance" but believe that anything arriving within 15 minutes of schedule is performing. From a source I have inside OC, they just skew the numbers to look as good as possible when the situation even drivers say is the worst it has ever been. We in the western world have become complacent allowing terrible performance and service become the norm. In Tokyo, a city with as many people as Canada subtracting Montreal, they have a far better on time performance than we do, in fact if a train leaves even a few seconds early, they tweet an apology. Meanwhile OC has a few full time employees to communicate cancellations which they announce 10% of

[@RailFansCanada]

Small mistake in the video (more a slip of the tongue), the pedestrian bridge at Queensview station crosses the 417 and not the 174. The audio for the East and West videos were recorded at the same time so I was probably still excited about the East when that slip up happened.

[@ianmckenna5252]

Even Geoff Marshall makes the occasional small mistake. It's a good video in any case.

[@ianmckenna5252]

I watched the video twice, and didn't notice...

[@keegaroo6577]

Oops yeah I just came to say that, glad you caught that :)

[@ianmckenna5252]

Thank you for the video. Looking forward to more in the new year.

[@RailFansCanada]

Thank you Ian. Much more to come next year. Stay tuned next week for the South overview. Happy Holidays.

[@commpacifacfilms]

I see there is a proposal for a big apartment complex across from the New Orchard LRT stop. New buildings seem to be following the train line along Richmond Road. Looking forward to seeing grass and trees lining Richmond Road again.

[@annoyed707]

An LRT that runs would be a game changer for Ottawa.

[@lizzy5121]

it does run. this is the first time it’s been closed for a long period. it’s been functioning 94% of the time.

[@mykimations3957]

You should look into the South Line

[@RailFansCanada]

Stay tuned, that is next week's video. Working on it now.

[@dave_bed]

The naming scheme for some of these stations feel a little strange, like named after very small roads.

[@lawrencetaylor5407]

I sure hope it's popular; I've seen the 417 traffic getting crazier and crazier. All that pollution. Glad I work from home.

[@cheers2262]

Do you think if Westboro and Kichi Sibi stations are completed by the end of year, trains will start to run on them towards Blair station or they are going to wait till the completion of the West extension in 2026 to use them?

[@RailFansCanada]

The plan is to wait until the west is done before having passengers on trains west of Tunneys Pasture. On the bright side we should be riding Line 2/4 later this year. And East in early 2025.

[@herlsone]

Nice review, but now its going to be done in 2026??? twice as long as promised. And from watching the slides that were provided by the city, one would think 25% of the population of Ottawa is handicapped.

[@mlmielke]

The 100-day compromise between City and NCC resulted in the segment that includes Kìchì Sìbì underground. That segment is where the delay is.

[@colinjohnston5734]

I wished they would have kept the name Dominion, or at least spelled it Kitchississippi like the older 50’s era buildings in the area have as it was a popular name for mechanicsville/westboro back in the day. Although I guess political correctness dictates anything from Canada's past needs to be the glossed with a native touch or whatever.