Transportation Geography Page.
A series of maps, images, videos, and opinion about Transportation in Canada and around the world.
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This page has been selected as one of the TOP TEN Transportation Geography Sites to be cited for Geography Awareness week for 2009. A complete list of the ten sites can be found Here: Transportation Day 2009.
I am geographer and a teacher, but I also have been a student of local planning in Ottawa since the mid 1970s. I recall that when the Bus-based Transitway was first proposed in the 1970s that it was designed and built so that it could be converted to rail-based transit service when the density of bus use reached a certain threshold. Stations, grade separation and roadways were designed so that Light Rail could be quickly and economically built and operated on the Transitway when it was time to convert the system to light rail. I participated in a series of videos on this topic and I also began to produce my own videos and to upload them onto the Youtube site. These maps are produced to help the user of this site to gain a better Geographic perspective to these many transportation topics.
This page is useful and works well when used with the Award Winning Ottawa Light Rail Video pages at: http://web.ncf.ca/fd978/SE_Transitway_2008/index.html
Transportation Geography Maps.
The maps here were created with ArcView 3.2 GIS system and then converted to an image format compatible for viewing on the Internet.
Overview map of the Ottawa Transitway system. Coming soon.
Map of the South East Transitway. Save 75 Million! Convert the South-East Transitway to Light Rail First:Describing the $75 Million cost saving of converting the South-East Transitway to Light Rail as opposed to converting the North-South O-Train line to double track Light Rail. PDF Format. Abode Acrobat Reader is required to read this file. Click here for Video on YouTube. Note: If you cannot connect to YouTube the video can also be downloaded on this site here: Convert S.E. Transitway
South-East and East Transitway Map showing the location of the South-East and East Transitways as well as the locations of the three potential Light Rail Maintenance/Storage Yards. PDF Format. Abode Acrobat Reader is required to read this file.
Map of the area around the Prince of Wales Railway Bridge. This is a major railway bridge that crosses the Ottawa River between downtown Ottawa and downtown Gatineau (Hull). However, this bridge sits unused while thousands of cars, trucks and buses clog the downtown streets on both side of the Ottawa River. Why is there no rail-based transit using the Prince of Wales Bridge? The O-Train stops at the nearby Bayview station, but it could very easily be extended across the Prince of Wales Bridge to Gatineau. PDF Format. Abode Acrobat Reader is required to read this file.
Map of the North-South Ottawa O Train Line. Also shows location of the Prince of Wales Bridge, the Ottawa Train Station (VIA) and the O Train maintenance and storage yard. PDF Format. Abode Acrobat Reader is required to read this file.
Map of downtown, Ottawa, Canada.
Highway 7 Overpass. Map of the former CPR Right of Way between Carleton Place and Bells Corners. Why is that corridor not being used for rail-based transportation? Why is the new Highway 7 overpass that is being built over this right of way, not large enough for future rail use? Why has planning and building for Sustainable Development gone so wrong in this part of eastern Ontario? PDF Format. Abode Acrobat Reader is required to read this file.
Catchment map for Carleton Place Right of Way and Rail lines west of Ottawa. This is a map that shows the potential flow of commuters who would use the former Carleton Place Railway Right of Way for rail-based transit. Note: This right of way was purchased by the former Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton for long term use as a transportation and utility corridor. This map also shows catchment areas for other active rail lines west of Ottawa. PDF Format. Abode Acrobat Reader is required to read this file.
Map of Current Operational Railways in the Ottawa area (2009). This map shows the railway lines on the Ontario and Quebec sides of the Ottawa Rivers surrounding the Capital of Canada. This map was created on September 22, 2009. PDF Format. Abode Acrobat Reader is required to read this file.
Map of Existing Railways in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec in 1957. Also shows the New York Central (NYC) Line to Ottawa as this was the year that line ended service since the bridge crossing the river at Cornwall was to be removed for the building of the new St. Lawrence Seaway. Jpeg Format.
Map of Ottawa Streetcar and bus routes in 1954. Jpeg Format.
Map of the Saar Region
Location map of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Location map of Denver, Colorado.
Location map of Calgary, Alberta.
Location map of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. This is an area map that shows the location of the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine in relation to other cites in Ukraine as well as some of the countries in that part of the world. This map is used to reference the videos on Dnipropetrovsk Trams Part 1. and Dnipropetrovsk Trams Part 2. PDF Format. Abode Acrobat Reader is required to read this file.