\u0022I am hopeful that the people of Ottawa and those councillors who were kept out of the loop and the people who use the system will get some sense of vindication with this report.\u0022
All those problems and more were laid bare during 18 days of public testimony at the Ottawa Light-Rail Transit Inquiry. Making sense of it all — including the claims and counter-claims by the city and its consultants, and the troubled train’s builders and maintainers — has been the job of Justice William Hourigan, who presided over the inquiry.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“What I’m most hoping to hear is an acknowledgment of what we all long suspected, that information was being withheld from the transit commission and council and the public, particularly about the testing period.” “It just demonstrated for me what I’ve been saying for a very long time: That there’s no transparency, no accountability,” Wright-Gilbert said.
Hourigan heard how the relationship between the city and Rideau Transit Group soured after a section of Rideau Street collapsed into an enormous sinkhole in 2016. Antonio Estrada, the CEO of RTG during most of the LRT’s construction, testified that the city became “less co-operative and more contractual” after the sinkhole debacle.
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