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I think it wouldn't hurt to have a later time slot than leaving Ottawa at 6pm.

If it left at 7:30 it could arrive at 12:30 before Union station closes.

It's too bad they can't have a 4am departure for a 9am arrival in Ottawa. I guess this is a limitation or having staff at Union and It would be pointless to have it start at Guildwood since you would miss downtown customers.

1:50 am departure for 7am arrival? Given that there is a slot that CN allows. Could you get to Montreal by 9am?

FLIX bus has a 2am departure from STC with arrival in Ottawa around 7am.
 
Bordercollie said:
I think it wouldn't hurt to have a later time slot than leaving Ottawa at 6pm.

If it left at 7:30 it could arrive at 12:30 before Union station closes.

It's too bad they can't have a 4am departure for a 9am arrival in Ottawa. I guess this is a limitation or having staff at Union and It would be pointless to have it start at Guildwood since you would miss downtown customers.

1:50 am departure for 7am arrival? Given that there is a slot that CN allows. Could you get to Montreal by 9am?

FLIX bus has a 2am departure from STC with arrival in Ottawa around 7am.
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Ottawa-Toronto is not just CN and Metrolinx slots but CP as well (Smiths Falls). My understanding is that adding 641 maxed out VIA's agreed slots through there.
 
The thing with the venture can car leading is the horn. It's loud. I don't notice it as much on GO can cars but I guess you are a bit further away or mounted differently? The emergency horn is especially noticable.

I would not want to ride cross country in the cab car in economy class. Perhaps making it the baggage car would be more suitable.
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This could be a news flash. If it's just a rumour, I'll delete it:
*****News flash, all LRC cars temporarily removed from service after cracks discovered. They'll return to service once inspections are complete.
 
Trackside_Treasure said:
This could be a news flash. If it's just a rumour, I'll delete it:
*****News flash, all LRC cars temporarily removed from service after cracks discovered. They'll return to service once inspections are complete.
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Not seeing anything on reddit, groups.io or cptdb. If true, this must have been a surprise given the seeming determination recently to get HEP2s off the road first.
 
dowlingm said:
Not seeing anything on reddit, groups.io or cptdb. If true, this must have been a surprise given the seeming determination recently to get HEP2s off the road first.
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The HEP cars are needed in other parts of the network.

I guess they should start cycling the ventures to more than two runs per day.
 
APTA-2048 said:
I just saw an LRC set on train 46.
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There are two LRC sets being swapped for Ventures in the next two days but no indication of a wider outage yet

Per groups.io
VIA 065/25 - 075/25 - 070/26 - 064/26: 918-8 LRC-913 > TS24 XL* 2323-2223


VIA 067/25 - 079/25 - 072/26 - 066/26: P42-7 LRC > TS21 2321-2221
 
So the LRC cars will be inspected, but it's not a pull 'em off the rails right now type of situation. Many have already been rotated east for inspections at the MMC. They'll be released once inspected. It will be interesting to see how many Venture sets VIA can squeeze into the rotation as needed.
 
rbt said:
Indeed. I've done door-to-door in ~90 minutes. Walk/jog 10 minutes to YTZ, get lucky with the ferry and clear security and board immediately in another 10, door closed immediately and the Porter flight takes ~55 minutes with favourable winds, a few minutes to disembark and get through YOW, then cab downtown Ottawa is another 15. 75 minutes door-to-door time seems impossible to achieve consistently even without the ferry step
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This seems a bit dependent on living close to YTZ. You'd be closer to 2 hrs if you started at Union and weren't walking distance.

The math needs to be for a hypothetical business traveler (the highest yielding pax). So from Bay and Adelaide basically.
 
kEiThZ said:
This seems a bit dependent on living close to YTZ. You'd be closer to 2 hrs if you started at Union and weren't walking distance.

The math needs to be for a hypothetical business traveler (the highest yielding pax). So from Bay and Adelaide basically.
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And the results may also be skewed if one factors in travel to business locations that are beyond the King-Bay core… Yonge/Bloor, University Hospital Network, Eglinton/Yonge, etc etc

- Paul
 
Travel times should be compared entrance to entrance. So,the entrance to a station to the entrance to the other station, or the entrance to an airport to the entrance to the other airport. Who care about moving time when planning your day?
 
kEiThZ said:
This seems a bit dependent on living close to YTZ. You'd be closer to 2 hrs if you started at Union and weren't walking distance.
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Absolutely. My intention was to show the previously provided 75 minute Toronto to Ottawa time was not realistic as even under very close to ideal circumstances the best I managed was 90 minutes; and odds were pretty high on missing that specific flight.
 
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