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Talk:Line 1 (O-Train)

Stage 2 West - Future services

I was wondering when the stage 2 west stations would get the future services/preceding & following station template like the stage 2 east stations. I would have done it but it's quite confusing. I hope someone else can create it with their free time and I can continue it from there if needed. Thank you CanadianBrick1 (talk) 04:23, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I can update Module:Adjacent stations/OC Transpo sometime this weekend. BLAIXX 00:46, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much CanadianBrick1 (talk) 14:15, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Keep in mind that once the western extension opens c. 2026, the branches will be named Line 1 and Line 3.[1] See Tunney's Pasture station for what I've done. BLAIXX 21:53, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Alright. I will keep that in mind and Thank you so much. CanadianBrick1 (talk) 22:39, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Surreal

This article describes plans that are 10 years old. If someone would read them today, the misleading tone would make them think the train actually runs on time, it doesn’t stop when it snows, and the construction plan are being efficiently executed.

Including a section about the history of the construction, with the lawsuits, delays, and the cancellation of the construction plans will make this article more accurate and attached to reality.

It should, at least, mention the news coverage of such a shameful execution, a reference: https://www.tvo.org/article/ottawas-colossal-lrt-debacle-a-brief-ish-history 2607:FEA8:E29D:5700:B091:4465:D7ED:153E (talk) 11:59, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Classification

As Reecemartin558 -a public transport expert- explained here, the Confederation line is by definition (because being fully grade-separated) a light metro line. This article explains why it's locally called 'light rail transit': "So, the politicians in Ottawa built a light metro instead, but by using modern trams, they could call it LRT." However, Wikipedia is a digital encyclopedia and therefore needs to describe the natural world accurately. As the goal is to be accurate, the means to use secondary sources. Below is a list of some secondary sources backing up that the Confederation Line is in fact a light metro/light rapid transit:

KatVanHuis (talk) 11:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just to raise a very big red flag, Reece Martin is no more a "public transport expert" than I am. He is a public transit enthusiast like many of the rest of us who has a mildly popular YouTube channel, making him a self-published source which we would never include as per WP:UGC. Editors of Wikipedia 1000% do not get to determine who qualifies as an "expert"—that's for reliable sources to determine. Even if such a determination had been made (I can think of only one private citizen in Canada who has had that kind of distinction made and whose work we cite with any regularity and that's because they've been recognized as an expert by 3rd parties for over FIFTY years), we would certainly never rely on one such person's opinions alone to determine how something was classified.
In a proper world, Reece Martin would not be editing Wikipedia at all as it's a huge and obvious conflict of interest, some of the issues of which are demonstrated in this uncritical labelling of him as an "expert" in this comment.
If the majority of reliable and verifiable non-self-published sources describe the Confederation Line specifically or the O-Train more generally as "light metro", then of course we would be good to include that description. But we certainly aren't free to do so simply because 1 person on the Internet says it's such. —Joeyconnick (talk) 18:24, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Joeyconnick for your reply, you are right. For sure Wikipedia needs to follow reliable secondary sources. I'd encourage everyone to read my first sentence above without the "-a public transport expert-" part. KatVanHuis (talk) 07:36, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 2 April 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. – robertsky (talk) 07:25, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

– The city of Ottawa and OC Transpo have both moved away from the usage of the names "Confederation Line" for Line 1 and "Trillium Line" for Line 2. With the recent creations of dedicated articles for Lines 3 and 4, the article names should be standardized. OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 19:55, 2 April 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. TarnishedPathtalk 03:47, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seconding this. The "Pilot project" section of the main O-Train article should link to the Line 2 article as well Ottawatransitguy (talk) 00:10, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: WikiProject Rapid transit, Canadian Wikipedians' notice board, WikiProject Ottawa, WikiProject Ontario, and WikiProject Trains have been notified of this discussion. TarnishedPathtalk 03:49, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.