The city just released this press release regarding a study that will be conducted to bring LRT and rail-grade separation to Barrhaven

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The City of Ottawa will study how to convert bus rapid transit to light-rail transit to serve Barrhaven commuters. The environmental assessment for this project is being combined with another already underway for rail grade-separations in Barrhaven due to overlapping geographic areas.

The study will determine how best to extend the O-Train Confederation Line 10 kilometres south from Baseline Station to Barrhaven Town Centre, with eight additional stations. The study will examine options for implementing light rail in stages and incorporating transit amenities, such as a maintenance and storage facility, park-and-ride lots and cycling and pedestrian infrastructure.

Completing the environmental assessment will allow the City to seek funding from other levels of government as soon as the next round of infrastructure funding programs are announced.

The combined study includes developing functional designs for rail overpasses at Woodroffe Avenue, Southwest Transitway and Fallowfield Road to increase safety at these crossings.

The City’s Transportation Committee will receive the statement of work for the joint assessment at its meeting on Wednesday, October 3. Based on the outcomes of this study, City staff will make recommendations to the Committee sometime in the fall 2020.

 

One thing that comes to my mind is how all the services are gonna be arranged if there is a super long Barrhaven branch and no branch to Kanata.

6 hours ago, reecemartin said:

One thing that comes to my mind is how all the services are gonna be arranged if there is a super long Barrhaven branch and no branch to Kanata.

The EA for an extension into Kanata was completed and published earlier this year.

Watson's hope is that the two extensions will be built together as part of Stage 3.

https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public-engagement/projects/kanata-light-rail-transit-planning-and-environmental-assessment-study

Should the Barrhaven extension come to pass, the only remaining separated Transitway section would probably be between Heron and Hurdman.

Would be quite amazing that the nearly the entire Transitway road network will have been converted to rail. While it is often claimed that it was originally designed for the future possibility of conversion to rail, there are areas where that will not be the case, some small and some larger than others.

For example, at Train station (now Tremblay) the trains take a different more straight alignment into the station area rather than the curved profile of the Transitway. And the section between Lincoln Fields and each branches next station to the west follow somewhat new routings. The line towards Baseline no longer stops at Queensway station (which will no doubt be removed). And the other line towards Bayshore takes a new routing to come up along side highway 417, rather than the ramp located adjacent to Queensway station.

Will there be a pedestrian overpass included to connect to the opposite side of the 417 from Queensview?

7 hours ago, Shane said:

Should the Barrhaven extension come to pass, the only remaining separated Transitway section would probably be between Heron and Hurdman.

Would be quite amazing that the nearly the entire Transitway road network will have been converted to rail. While it is often claimed that it was originally designed for the future possibility of conversion to rail, there are areas where that will not be the case, some small and some larger than others.

For example, at Train station (now Tremblay) the trains take a different more straight alignment into the station area rather than the curved profile of the Transitway. And the section between Lincoln Fields and each branches next station to the west follow somewhat new routings. The line towards Baseline no longer stops at Queensway station (which will no doubt be removed). And the other line towards Bayshore takes a new routing to come up along side highway 417, rather than the ramp located adjacent to Queensway station.

Will there be a pedestrian overpass included to connect to the opposite side of the 417 from Queensview?

The South-East transitway would be from South Keys to Hurdman, not just from Heron.

From the functional design report it looks like there will be a pedestrian overpass, although it showed that Queensview was originally supposed to be an island platform. Hopefully they kept the overpass in the final design..

Good point. I meant more in terms of section that wasn't twinned with the Transitway, as it mostly is between Heron and South Keys once Stage 2 is done, which would leave Hurdman to Heron as probably the only larger section that isn't also served by train.

Thanks for the info on the pedestrian bridge. I would have liked to see it moved a bit more to the West to more easily access Ikea as that is a major destination in that area, but I can see that the positioning is to facilitate access via a road (Baxter) rather than via a parking lot at Ikea.