There has been no word as of Monday afternoon about whether LRT service would be replaced by R1 buses for a second day after a majority of the O-Train line was shut down due to suspected storm damage. 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.
Coun. Theresa Kavanagh, a member of the city's transit commission, said she has yet to hear any details about a timeline. She told CFRA's "Ottawa Now with Kristy Cameron" that the damage may be worse than initially suspected. That memo from Amilcar regarding the R1 service, identifying lightning as the suspected issue, was delivered to the media at 8:52 a.m. Monday. Kavanagh spoke just after 4 p.m. and said she had not heard any new information.