Ottawa's city council has directed its head of transit services to negotiate a settlement with Rideau Transit Group in a long-running dispute over whether the light rail builder has lived up to the terms of its contract.
A scathing public inquiry into the City of Ottawa’s new light rail system raises a lot of questions for LRT projects later launched in the Greater Toronto Area.
The people of Ottawa are angry after the LRT public inquiry report found public officials knew the Confederation Line would not be reliable, and that some city leaders lied about that. They're not many left at City Hall who were in on the decisions. Now, it's up to the current council to usher in a new era of accountability.
The Rideau Street sinkhole in 2016 not only delayed construction on Ottawa's troubled Confederation Line, it damaged the relationship between the city and the light rail line's builder so severely that it could haunt passengers for decades to come.
Ottawa's new mayor Mark Sutcliffe has vowed to improve accountability and transparency around the city's light rail network and implement "key recommendations" from a scathing report issued Wednesday by the LRT inquiry.