As OC Transpo continues to run tests along the LRT line to dig deeper into issues plaguing the wheel hub assembly, riders say they're starting to lose patience more than a week into the shutdown.
"We depend on the LRT to run every five minutes and the buses don't run accordingly, especially going to Rideau and stuff so it's obviously frustrating and irritating," said Khoschi Kapoor."I work every day early in morning and I have to grab Ubers. It's costing me $30 to $40 each way several times a day," said Philip Bontekoe.
That includes Ella Primeau, a software engineering student at the University of Ottawa. After a previous derailment, she started making maps of alternative bus routes for her friends. During the most recent shutdown, she's shared them publicly. "It's like when people go for a drive just to clear their head, I go for a bus ride. And so I just gather all of this information, just by kind of osmosis of using the system," Primeau said."I've noticed a lot people are saying 'Yeah, I tried this bus and it worked out really well,' so I'm just so glad."
On Monday, OC Transpo revealed that because of a bearing issue—the root cause of which has not been identified—there will be a complete redesign of the wheel hub assembly. As a result, every axle on every single train will have to be replaced, but there will first need to be a design, prototype and significant testing before that happens, which is more than a year away, according to officials.
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