The firm is being conservative on even minor issues to make sure that Rideau Transit Group can address the issues safely, a source told CTV News. That the trains were removed from service and assessed is a reflection of TRA's caution in helping relaunch the service. "After two separate derailments within 40 days, we need assurances that a relaunched LRT service is safe and reliable." "We’re still targeting a relaunch of partial service in mid-November. "As expected for a fleet that’s been grounded for over seven weeks, some issues were identified with some of the trains over the past several days, This is normal and the whole point of the testing period," Kanellakos said.
Trains were spotted running along the full 12 kilometre track, stopping at all rail stations.Ĭity manager Steve Kanellakos said it was expected that issues would arise.
On Thursday, Rideau Transit Group and OC Transpo started simulating regular light rail service as part of the return-to-service plan. to validate that the train's can go back into testing." Three are still outstanding, so they just have to go through and check the vibration is actually. We had a total of 5 LRVs that have gone back, two are back into the spin to go back into the testing. "The report of three vibration of vehicles, I believe, have gone back into the yard. "There's been abundance of caution, a lot of messaging to staff, retraining, making sure that people are aware and feeling the vehicles as we move back into testing of service," said Richards.
Ottawa's Chief Safety Officer Brandon Richards said five trains were pulled out of service during testing on Thursday after vibration issues were detected. She did not specify how many trains have been pulled from testing. "We will know further very soon," she said. Transit services head Renee Amilcar told councillors that some trains experienced vibration, and that Rideau Transit Group is investigating the cause. However, issues arose with some trains during testing. "We will announce the specific date a day or two before that."Ĭity officials had been hoping to give a specific date at Friday's technical briefing with TRA Inc., the third-party firm conducting an independent safety review of the return to service process. "We are still very much on schedule to have train service within the first two weeks of November," Mayor Jim Watson said at the outset of a technical briefing on Friday. When the trains do return to service sometime over the next week and a half, each LRT vehicle will have undergone a "roof down to the wheels" re-inspection of all critical connections before entering service. There is still no firm date for Ottawa's broken-down LRT system to return to service, 48 days after the system was shutdown due to the second derailment in six weeks.
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