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Ottawa is the capitol of Canada, for those who live in the US, that is the country North of the Unisted States (well of the contigous 48 at least, it is East of Alaska. |
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This was "Borrowed" from OCTranspo's WWW site. This is the old style of sign, see below for the new ones. Thanks to C. Leech for pointing me to them. |
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This is one of their new signs. Yes it is bilingual. Picture courtesy of C. Leech. |
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This is the sign for stop 1C at the Lincoln station on the transit way. Courtesy of C. Leech. |
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This stop is in a BUS ONLY lane. Yes the street is red. Picture courtesy of C. Leech. |
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The concrete structures were built to serve two purposes, the first is that they were the base for bus shelters (the stop has since been moved), the second is to prevent vehicles from ramming
the building. Yes, these were built prior to Sept. 11, 2001. |
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I thought you might be interested to see the results of your handiwork. This photo is at the corner of Stikine and
Kanata Ave. Route 160 travels NB on Stikine and stops NS, while Route 68 travels EB on Kanata Ave. and stops FS of the intersection. Picture & Text by C. Leech (the text was originally
written to a rhird party, possibly involved in installing the sign, we just get two stops for the price of one picture). |
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The attached photo was taken Monday morning from an office in the federal government office complex Les Terrasses de la
Chaudiere in Gatineau. Usually it's the cars in Gatineau that are blocking the buses, not vice versa. We'll have to ask the City of Gatineau for a triple left turn lane at this intersection. :-)
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quick geography: The photographer is looking approximately south or southeast. The road at the top right leads (south) to the Chaudiere Bridge back to Ottawa. The bus shelter at the bottom of the photo is on
a two-lane road that is the forecourt of Terrasses. It's separated from the main road by a difference in elevation as well as grass. The main east-west road is Laurier (to the left/east) and Tache
(right/west).
The three buses spooning with each other toward the top right of the photo would be deadheads heading back to Ottawa making a left turn from Laurier toward the bridge. That's an OC tow
truck facing them. There is an old Fishbowl travelling in the opposite direction to them. He would have to climb a hill coming through the intersection and them make a left turn Terrasses. The hill explains
the two stuck NB buses in the area between Laurier/Tache and Terrasses. The jack-knifed Slinky would have been making a right turn from Laurier followed by a quick left to enter Terrasses. The straight bus
might have been making the same turn or coming straight north from the bridge to enter Terrasses. The whole intersection is on a hill (although it's not an overly large hill) - the triplet facing south would
be going downhill as they turn the corner. I have no idea which direction the bus at the right side of the photo would have been going. It's hard to imagine that he would have been travelling from Laurier
and tried to make the right/left combo turn to enter Terrasses, and slid all the way through the intersection until the lamp pole stopped him. There should be no buses travelling straight through from left
to right (Laurier to Tache). He's pretty much blocking all WB traffic on Tache although the minivan is trying to go around him. It looks like he's been there a while, given the white colour of the road under
him compared to the EB traffic on Tache which has been beating down the snow into a brown colour. Picture & text by C. Leech (December 2005). |
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Last revised: March 27, 2006 |
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