The city states the concerns are too complicated and comprehensive for them to address without an unique instruction from city board to dedicate personnel to the job.
Released Apr 11, 2023 – Last upgraded 3 hours ago – 3 minute checked out
Councillor Wilson Lo, a previous OC Transpo bus motorist, desires responses on how and why the overhead wires powering Ottawa’s LRT keep breaking.
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In an in-depth, six-page submission to the city’s Transit Commission, of which he’s a member, Lo asks 20 concerns about whatever from what the wires are made from, how they’re secured from deterioration, how and how typically they’re examined and whether it’s far too late to make modifications to the system for the Stage 2 extensions of the Confederation Line to the east and west.
He likewise inquires about the city’s choice to power the LRT with 1,500-volt lines, double the power of comparable LRT systems in Waterloo and Toronto, and making the Confederation Line the only LRT in the nation to run at such a high voltage.
Whether Lo gets any responses will depend upon his fellow councillors. The city states the concerns are too intricate and in-depth for them to respond to without an unique instruction from city board to commit personnel to the job.
“Transit Services Department (TSD) personnel determined that, due to the subject, intricacy and scope of the query, personnel are not able to react utilizing existing resources and info within an affordable quantity of time,” city personnel stated in their response to Lo’s submission. “As this query needs considerable resource and time financial investments, Council instructions is needed to change personnel work strategies and continue with reacting to this query.”
In a preamble to his concerns resolved to the city’s basic supervisor of transit, Renée Amilcar, Lo discusses why he believes it’s crucial the concerns are responded to.
“My technique here would have been totally various had this been the very first, 2nd, or perhaps 3rd significant disturbance in Line 1’s life span. Time after time, repair after repair, guarantee after pledge, we discover ourselves where we began,” he composed.
“Without significant source analyses, long-term repairs aren’t actually long-term.”
In January, the LRT was partly out of service for 6 days after 2 trai