The latest shutdown of Ottawa's LRT is in its fifth full day and, with officials indicating it will not reopen over the weekend, it is on track to be the longest non-maintenance related shutdown so far this year.
An ice storm in early April caused five trains across the Confederation Line to become stuck, about three months after the first ice storm of the year stranded passengers.
OC Transpo shut down the full LRT line between Tunney's Pasture and Blair stations just before 10 a.m. April 5.A LRT vehicle sits parked on the westbound track of the O-Train line near Lees Avenue on Thursday, April 6, 2023. The latest unforeseen service disruption is ongoing. This prompted OC Transpo to demand an immediate halt to all train service across the entire Confederation Line. Customers were ordered off trains and out of stations and onto R1 buses, which had to be scrambled at the last minute.Since then, officials have said that every vehicle must be inspected and the data from a battery of tests must be analyzed before the system is able to resume ferrying passengers.
During the closures, Line 1 continued to run between Tunney's Pasture and Parliament stations in the west, and between Hurdman and Blair stations in the east, but riders had to take R1 buses betwee Hurdman and Lyon stations.
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