Ottawa Busway Conversion to Rail (Canada)

[somebody]

Was wondering about this, so had a look.  Found a detailed thesis on the Ottawa Transitway here: http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~dpjames/mdp/david_james-mdp-final.pdf

Anyway, it seems that all routes have a common path through the CBD, and I'm not sure that those stops/stations actually have 2 lanes/direction.  So it's unclear that buses can pass each other at stops. Even if that doesn't apply, it seems that the capacity is similar to the Cultural Centre.  I'd have to say that I can't see that problem happening here.  We have Margaret St, Elizabeth St, Adelaide St and underground as CBD paths from the south.  From the north we have Ann St, Adelaide St, Edward St and the Northern Busway.  Although the loop to approach the Captain Cook Bridge may become a bottleneck in the near future.

[SurfRail]

Ottawa by all accounts does not have its transitway provide a decent right of way through the middle of the densest part of town, so we are already streets ahead of them.

From what I have read, Ottawa would be like Brisbane without the QSBS or INB, and everything through-routed down Adelaide Street - sort of analogous to Adelaide, with the busway ending on the periphery of the CBD, except without the enormous CBD and lots of street-side stop capacity/different possible routes.

I think our busways will weather high patronage a lot more than theirs, but figures I read somewhere indicated their dinky little 5 station diesel light rail system was carrying something like the combined patronage of several of our railway lines over a working day...

[somebody]

What cars are allowed on the central part of the Transitway?  Is it like Adelaide St - local access only, bus lanes with general traffic allowed in the other lanes, or no traffic allowed without a permit? I'm guessing the bus lanes.

[#Metro]

View of Ottawa Transitway (busway) being converted to rail.

Convert the Ottawa South-East Transitway to Light Rail

(don't quite agree with the numbers cited, but the general gist is the same - at high pax volumes it becomes economical to run rail instead).

East end Transitway closes Sunday

Early Sunday morning, while most people in Ottawa are fast asleep, the last OC Transpo bus rolled down the Transitway between Blair and Hurdman stations.

The closure of this stretch of dedicated busway represents a first key step in the city's ambitious, multi-billion dollar plan to replace thousands of buses with new light-rail trains.

[SurfRail]

They went about this in a decidedly odd way when they could have just done a Calgary on it.  I thought it was, or nearly was, 100% segregated ROW, in which case there's no point going with low floor vehicles as opposed to high level platforms and all the bogies and running gear underneath.  Happy to be corrected.