10 takeaways from the Ottawa LRT Inquiry final report

Political pressure to launch the O-Train

"The practical result was that the parties pushed out resolving known problems into the period of system operations."Commissioner Hourigan says there was a "deliberate effort" by former City Manager Steve Kanellakos to mislead Council on the decision to lower the criteria during testing of the Confederation Line in the summer of 2019.

Commissioner William Hourigan concluded the city "elected to gamble with unproven technology" with the decision to select Alstom's Citadis Spirit Model as the vehicle of choice for the LRT project. Hourigan says the delivery model chosen by the city, which relied on the private sector to build and maintain the Confederation Line, "left the city with little control over RTG's work."

The report notes the most significant delay for the project was the Rideau Street sinkhole in 2016, but also pointed to the Ottawa Light Rail Transit Constructors "failure to integrate its many components and systems" and the Ontario government's rules established in 2008 that require specified amounts of Canadian content in the vehicles, including material and labour.

"Other witnesses from both the City and RTG acknowledged that the change was made because RTG was struggling to get the full 15 trains on the line. "Further, the arrangements for subcontractors on this project were complex and uncoordinated. At times subcontractors, which had overlapping ownership interests, were working at cross-purposes, which contributed to an overall lack of integration," Hourigan wrote."The commission finds the city of Ottawa, Rideau Transit Group and its subcontractors "failed to appreciate and plan" for the delays and reliability issues" associated with a new system with new technology.

DrRoubaFattal allanhubley only received slightly over 30% of the votes in Kanata. He lost the trust of his constituents long ago. This makes it even worse. He needs to resign. Hubley CFRAOttawa OttawaCitizen DrRoubaFattal

grahamctv Never understood why the trains were built in Ottawa until now, that was only way to meet Can content required by province. Yet when new ferries were needed for Pelee and Wolfe Is, it was ok to have them built in Chile and Romania. Another example how prov treats Ottawa.

grahamctv Well we now know why the city manager resigned and the mayor chose not to run. Maddening as how can we hold them accountable?

10 takeaways,....and only one mention of Jim Watson, 8 paragraphs in. Nice work Josh Pringle.

Meh. Underwhelming. Some politicians, their toadies & contractors told a bunch of lies & hoarded info for power & profit. Sounds like just another day among the politicians. Politicians are consistently held to a much lower standard of decency & ethics than regular people.

Guess Jimbo can kiss a bridge or building being named after him!

All three individuals who withheld critical information about this to council misleading them and city tax payers should be brought up on charges of fraud!

_MarkSutcliffe any thoughts?

Follow the money…..

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