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O-Train Line 1 returning to double car-only service at last

Photo: Ottawa O-Train leaving St.Laurent Station tunnel. (via Saboteurest/Wikimedia Commons, used under a Creative Commons license.) Like most things with OC Transpo, it seems Christmas came late for O-Train riders, but did eventually show up nonetheless. OC Transpo announced last week that, as of Monday, January 8, the fragile light rail system will provide exclusively double-car service like it was designed to do. ...

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We're stuck with a slowpoke train for a while

From the Ottawa Citizen, regarding Line 1’s speed reductions, which are getting to be a bad joke at this point: The restrictions will stay in place until the troublesome axle and wheel assemblies on the LRT’s Alstom Citadis trains are redesigned and replaced, and approval of that redesign isn’t expected until late 2024, according to a report to be presented to the City of Ottawa’s transit commission this week. ...