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O-Train Trillium Line service will be temporarily replaced by bus Route 107 from February 14 to 22, in order to complete necessary commissioning and preparation for the new expanded O-Train Trillium Line service. During this time, trains will be running but will not be in service. ...

Councillor Marianne Wilkinson has organized a meeting for users of the 60, 64 and 68 routes to discuss their issues with the service they are receiving since changes were introduced at the end of December. Pat Scrimgeour, OC Transpo Assistant General Manager of Customer Systems & Planning, and Troy Charter, Assistant General Manager of Transit Operations, will present information on the function of these revised routes, will respond to concerns submitted by residents regarding the impact of the service changes and answer resident questions. ...

The City of Ottawa is looking for public feedback on its preferred alignment for the Confederation Line East Light Rail Transit (LRT) extension at a series of open houses in early February. For the most part, the preferred alignment for the rail line is in the median that runs in the middle of Highway 174 and is being co-ordinated with the eventual widening of the highway. ...

On Saturday, December 13, Sussex Drive will fully reopen to two lanes in each direction, between St. Patrick Street and King Edward Avenue. All four lanes of traffic will remain open throughout the winter months, with some intermittent lane reductions during off-peak traffic periods for utility work. ...

[  ](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J6ZhBM0vTiI/UliXRMpCk6I/AAAAAAAASLE/M3nAnnNXkIM/s1600/13i-347___003.jpg) Photo supplied by the City of Ottawa. Remember the not-boring-but-actually-a-roadheader-LRT-tunnel-machine that [ we blogged about a couple weeks ago? ](http://ottawastart.com/ottawa-is-boring-the-ultimate-lrt-tunnel-construction-t-shirt/) ** ** Well now, if you’re a Grade 4 student, you can give it a name. ...

Most people who’ve taken the bus in Ottawa have probably spent some time on their commute dreaming about the ultimate, pie-in-the-sky, never-in-a-million-years Ottawa transit system. You know, subways from Barrhaven to Canadian Tire Centre, rail tunnels beneath the Ottawa River, that kind of thing. ...

** UPDATE: ** The Citizen’s David Reevely tells OttawaStart that the machine on the t-shirt is in fact ** _ not _ ** technically a boring machine, but a roadheader. (Boring machines are perfectly round, like this one . ...

Update: David Reevely has a bit more about the “Queen Street boneyard” on his blog . Work on Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit tunnel came to halt yesterday after workers found bones underground. https://twitter.com/OttawaCitizen/status/380739461552013312 https://twitter.com/onthebeat1/status/380713111080038400 https://twitter.com/onthebeat1/status/380740346314911744 https://twitter.com/ctvottawa/status/381020286671286273 This morning, local history buff Andrew King went to work, scouring Google for old maps and documents that might give some clues about where the bones came from. ...