Transit commission meets amid flagging ridership and budgetary pressures
CTV
The city of Ottawa's transit commission meets today, the first time commissioners have been together since a nearly month-long shutdown of the city's LRT system, and as the system faces significant budgetary pressures.
An update on the running of the LRT in the month since service resumed following a 28-day shutdown is expected to be heard.
Commission will also discuss some steps OC Transpo is taking to try to win back riders.
OC Transpo made the abrupt call to stop all service on the Confederation Line in the middle of the afternoon commute on July 17 and promptly closed the system. The call was made after excess grease was found on one of the wheel hub assemblies of a train during a routine inspection. It was later revealed that the issue was similar to the problem linked to the derailment in August 2021.
Over the course of the four weeks the system was offline, officials announced a plan to completely redesign the wheel hub assemblies on the train, a stricter maintenance regime, and work to adjust some of the rails on the tight curves throughout the line, particularly in the east end.
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