City staff are pushing Rideau Transit Group (RTG) to remedy the outstanding issues with Ottawa’s light-rail transit system by the end of August, but the consortium responsible for building and maintaining the LRT line is expecting work to last for the rest of 2020.
Ottawa’s director of rail Michael Morgan gave a presentation to city council Wednesday on the status of the Confederation Line LRT, which has been plagued by issues such as door jams and insufficient train availability.
Morgan said RTG provided an updated plan to the city on April 24 to fix these outstanding issues, but it was missing a key piece of information: a firm timeline on when Ottawa will have an LRT system that consistently achieves the standards the city set out in the