NEW: Damage to Ottawa’s Confederation Line LRT may take 'several days' to repair, according to a new memo from the city’s general manager of transit services. ottnews ottawalrt
"Once they remove the train, then they’ve got to put new catenary lines up, they’ve got to weight them right, and then make sure they’re balanced on both sides," he said. "They’ve got to get the expertise in to do it, including removing the train carefully, then reconstructing, then recalibrating. Engineering things of that level of intricacy are not done quickly, and it just seems inconceivable to me that that would be done overnight.
"When there is a significant shutdown of the line, you need to be able to communicate that to the public, not just via social media," he said. "The audio system that all stations have; signage, where you put people in vehicles to put a significant amount of temporary signage up at stations to inform riders where to go."City councillors on the transit commission said they were waiting all day for information and were just as in the dark as their constituents.
Coun. Theresa Kavanagh, a member of the city's transit commission, said she not heard any details about a timeline by Monday afternoon. She told CFRA's "Ottawa Now with Kristy Cameron" that the damage may be worse than initially suspected. "I don't think they have anything to tell us and it's frustrating because we don't know," she said. "I think they have to tell us, 'We don't know yet and we're still working on it,' because people still have to make plans. We don't want to give false hope and we want to be as accurate as possible... but we need to know."
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