Maintenance crews in a bucket truck spent Friday afternoon manually bashing ice off overhead power lines as they tried to move two trains stuck near Lees…
“This work will take some time to complete, and it’s expected to continue into the weekend,” Charter said.
The LRT’s poor winter performance was one of the issues addressed during the provincial public inquiry into the construction, operation and maintenance of the Confederation Line. In his report, released Nov. 30, Justice William Hourigan said the train should have been tested in real-world winter weather conditions and not just in lab simulations, as was done for Ottawa’s system.
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