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The Walkley Site
The Walkley yard is a brownfield location currently in use by the City of Ottawa for the O-train maintenance. The site is located south of Walkley Road and north of Johnston Road.
The City of Ottawa claims
that the site is inadequate in that there is no means for turning the
train cars around. Contrary to this assertion, there is an existing
wye
(the track formation used to turn a train around). You may view this
wye just below the second electrical tower in the north side of the
yard photo.
The City of Ottawa, claims
that this site location is single-ended. This is also incorrect. The
site is double-ended. As you can see from the aerial photo of the site,
the site is open at
the Bank Street side (west side) and the Conroy side (east side). The
existing yard spans approximately 3 km, which is more than enough space
to accommodate the proposed plans.
The North side of the site
is currently owned by CP Rail. In 2000, CP Rail offered the site at
a reasonable cost to the City of Ottawa. The City refused. Interestingly,
the City of
Ottawa’s East-West LRT Corridor Key Plan shows the corridor going
through the Walkley Yard.
According to Transport 2000 Canada (an independent
national body concerned with sustainable transport), the Walkley Yard
location will be able to hold over 200 train cars.
That is 10 times more trains than what the City of Ottawa is currently
forecasting, and it is almost double the train capacity (105) which is
forecasted in the Transportation Master Plan.
Existing Walkley Site clearly allowstrains to turn around. |
 Arial photo of Walkley site, plenty of room to build new facility. |
 City Of Ottawa currently uses the Walkley yards for the O-Train. |
 City Of Ottawa built fibreglass tents to extend the workshops for the O-Train |
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 The Walkley yard is a pre-existing industrial location. |
 Existing service road along the south side of tracks. |
 The south side of the Walkley Yard is currently used for freight trains by CP Rail. |
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