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by **BrettQC** on Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:26 pm

3liteguy wrote:Wish you had circled around to the front on this.

Here you go, a little dark though. (And sorry for the double-post).

^^ The main intersection these lights are attached to

^^ Gatineau turns horizontal lights face down when not in use (as opposed to Ottawa where they cover their vertical lights with garbage bags)

by **ARIESHEART** on Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:46 pm

by **3liteguy** on Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:12 pm

BrettQC wrote:
3liteguy wrote:Wish you had circled around to the front on this.

Here you go, a little dark though. (And sorry for the double-post).

^^ The main intersection these lights are attached to

^^ Gatineau turns horizontal lights face down when not in use (as opposed to Ottawa where they cover their vertical lights with garbage bags)

Don't apologize for the double post. I just wanted to see what the face of the signal looked like. It looks as though that intersection is currently NOT an intersection?

by **BrettQC** on Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:56 pm

3liteguy wrote: Don't apologize for the double post. I just wanted to see what the face of the signal looked like. It looks as though that intersection is currently NOT an intersection?

I guess you can say so. It's currently under construction, and set to be fully operational by Fall 2013. But the lights replaced all the railway signals as well, although the rail isn't used and is being re-built along with Rapibus.

More about Rapibus:

by **notMUTCDcompliant** on Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:19 pm

So question... why are they building dedicated bus lanes rather then a light rail or something... seems odd!

by **BrettQC** on Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:04 pm

notMUTCDcompliant wrote:So question... why are they building dedicated bus lanes rather then a light rail or something... seems odd!

They seem to want to copy the City of Ottawa (across the river) which created their own BRT in the 1980s called the Transitway. However, the City of Ottawa is replacing the downtown portions with LRT (that goes under downtown). Ottawa also has the O-Train LRT that is useless, but uses the same rail that crosses the river and follows Rapibus. I think the Ville de Gatineau / STO just want to go with the cheapest option.

by **notMUTCDcompliant** on Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:13 pm

Ah... ok. Cause it seems they are sinking some major $ into it... not sure, but don't think there would be mush cost difference between paving and throwing down some light rail tracks... though I could be way wrong here!

by **BrettQC** on Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:24 pm

notMUTCDcompliant wrote:Ah... ok. Cause it seems they are sinking some major $ into it... not sure, but don't think there would be mush cost difference between paving and throwing down some light rail tracks... though I could be way wrong here!

They're spending about Can $200,000,000 on Rapibus.

by **BrettQC** on Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:39 pm

Rapibus is 17 km at C$195,000,000

Whereas, Ottawa's new LRT is 12.5 km at C$2,100,000,000

by **BrettQC** on Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:59 pm

So, I contacted the Ville de Gatineau (primarily to ask about purchasing old signals, they recommend trying local scrap yards). They say they use Électroméga and Tassimco (both from Montréal) for their signals.

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