Yeah, yeah, it's a corporate computer graphics publicity video, but two things caught my eye: first it illustrates the vehicle that OC Transpo is using in a light rail configuration in a streetcar configuration, and two, the video does have a stylized model streetcar layout vibe to it. That video down there is Alstom's spin on the vehicle for us potential OC Transpo commuters here in Ottawa. Same sort of vibe, but I had to laugh at their depiction of winter. In the video it looks like someone sprinkled some fine icing sugar on the city, but in reality, last winter we had about 312 cm of snow! And if you're wondering, yes it's all melted now :-)
We have two variants of Citidis trams in Melbourne, both have a track record of flogging out curves, they handle like a truck with two flat tyres and suffer poorly in extreme environments. Fixed truck modular rollingstock do not work well with legacy systems.
ReplyDeleteYikes! They have not yet gone into service here - for a number of technical reasons haven't begun the 'official' all up full system test on the Confederation line. They are highly controversial, and there's a lot of concern that they'll be able to handle our winters which can see temperatures in the -30C to -20C range as well as considerable snow.
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