Jim Watson tweeted stills from a 360-degree virtual tour of Lyon Station.
A virtual tour of Lyon Street station launched Tuesday gives future LRT travellers a 360-degree walk through one of the main downtown stations on the Confederation Line.
Mayor Jim Watson launched the virtual tour in a tweet Tuesday morning.
Virtual visitors can use their computer or cellphone to walk their way through the station, starting at street level and descending stairs and escalators all the way to the train platform. Along the way, clickable “hot spots” provide more details on safety features such as the location of emergency phones, signage and wayfinding markers on the floor.
Stairwells feature bicycle runnels to help cyclists guide their bikes down the steps. There is information on the public art installations, locations of the electronic information kiosks, turnstiles and markers to show where the paid fare zone begins.
The tour can be found here: octranspo.com/ready4rail.
Lyon Station is one of 13 stations on the 12.5-kilometre Confederation Line, scheduled to open later this year. The public got its last look inside the station during the Canada 150 celebrations when the unfinished station hosted the popular Kontinuum laser light show.
The virtual tour was launched the same day that officials from Rideau Transit Group appeared before the city’s Finance and Economic Development Committee to provide an update on the project, which they say is still on track for the March 31 handover date. RTG is a consortium of more than a dozen companies building the first phase of Ottawa’s LRT.