City Responds To Damning Light-Rail Report
The City of Ottawa has released its response to the damning report of the Ottawa Light Rail Transit Public Inquiry of Nov. 2022:
You can read the response by clicking here.
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A cursory scan of the “report” reveals a lot of consultant-speak, and a lot of “plans” and “process’ commitments.
But sadly there seems to be no credible action for identification of root cause of technical failures and options for remediation.
And without a credible technical expertise in the administration of city hall, there can be no effective challenge process for what RTG delivers up.
Maybe instead of finding new real estate to give away to developers – like the Ontario Science centre or public school properties, Doug Ford could commit dollars to hiring a team of rail engineers away from Siemens to work at dedicated team inside Infrastructure Ontario to provide municipalities like Ottawa real independent expertise?
Please check the link in this item. It brings you to the LRT Commission report (which includes the City’s demand that some material be withheld – around page 622 or so) but it does not bring the reader to the latest statement by the City about how it proposes to respond to the damning LRT report. I think you intended to send us to another document.
Brocklebank:
Many sorries. My only excuse is I’m full of cold medicine because my allergies are killing me.
Thank you for the help. I hope readers will be able to see it.
cheers
kgray
Very confusing – What’s the difference between Public entities (first used in R1) and Public-Sector entities (R21)?
The preamble in the response to so many of the city specific recommendations was a copy and paste bureaucratese for further analysis is required, concluding with “which is expected to be concluded by Q4, 2023.” I needed a couple “no doze” antihistamine to finish reading this report.
Let me cut to the chase. Five months after the report was published the city’s response is “we need another six months” to figure out what, if anything we are prepared to do. This is what passes for urgency down on Laurier Avenue.
Ron:
I think the political concept is: if you delay your response long enough, no one cares about the issue anymore when you actually address it.
The problem with this strategy with LRT is that the product is so bad that people can’t forget it. It keeps breaking down and if you must be cut out of a car because a chain-link fence blocks your exit (thank goodness there hasn’t been a fire), you’re unlikely to forget this.
cheers
kgray
The main problem with this project was in buying an Experimental choo-choo train