Rail

12 oct
2015
Intersection of Lloyd Street and Former Railway Tracks

Lebreton Flats

industry, Rail, Lloyd Street

1962

2015

Former light industrial building at the corner of Lloyd and railway tracks.

sources
City of Ottawa

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Title: Untitled. Reference number: CA021017

We gave it a

-5

The NCC expropriated and let Lebreton Flats sits empty for 50 years.

Visitors's vote

-3^.8

119 votes

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The former light industrial building occupied the whole street block formed by Lloyd Street, Booth Street, Wellington Street and the train tracks.After a 50 year hiatus, the workers are now back at Lebreton Flats on that exact same location to build the Pimisi station of Ottawa's new LRT system....

07 jui
2014
Rideau Canal with a Locomotive

Rideau Canal

Rail, locomotive, Department of Defense, Laurier Bridge, Rideau Canal

~1960

2014

Locomotive on the shore of the rideau Canal

Rideau Canal in Ottawa with the Laurier Bridge and the Department of Defense

sources
National Capital Commission

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We gave it a

+1

Better use of the Rideau Canal shores. Less fan of the combo brutalism & UNESCO protected area.

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+0^.4

128 votes

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Today, everybody agrees that moving the train station in the suburbs was a mistake. That being said, its move has opened the shores of the Rideau Canal by removing the lanes of rails no longer required. By applying the sacro-saint parkways model, the NCC changed the vocation of the Rideau...