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Graphic: How Ottawa’s LRT system will look
The following graphic accompanies an article about the City of Ottawa’s selected builder of the $2.1 billion LRT system. This graphic corrects an error that appeared in the print version. You can read...
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Graphic: Common theme, striking stations
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Rideau Transit Group and inaccuracy about trains
As a reporter, it’s always a bit queasy-making when you hear a politician cite a story of yours in public. You want to make a difference, but you also don’t want your work used as a club to argue one...
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Should we be calling it the $4-billion LRT contract?
All the fracas over the F-35 contract actually costing an estimated $45.8 billion over 12 years of development and 30 years of flying and maintenance — instead of the much lower figures the federal...
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Planning the big LRT reveal
I filed a freedom-of-information request for the plans for the LRT unveiling back on Dec. 5, the heavily stage-managed presentation where the city named Rideau Transit Group as the winning bidder for...
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Rideau Transit Group starts staffing up
The city’s light-rail contractor, Rideau Transit Group, is hiring here in town. Starting, it appears, with communications people — a manager, a co-ordinator and a community liaison type. The actual...
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Another peek at the City Hall communications apparatus
On Dec. 5, the city put on its big show to announced that Rideau Transit Group was its preferred bidder on the contract to design, build, finance and maintain the planned light-rail system. The show...
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How to lose credibility and alienate reporters, City Hall edition
Earlier this week, I got wind that the city was on the brink of signing its $3.8-billion contract for light rail with the Rideau Transit Group. This wasn’t a huge surprise — the consortium was named as...
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The city has, in fact, signed the contract with Rideau Transit Group
I asked for clarification on the point. Apparently “finalized a contract” is the plain-English way of saying “signed a contract.” Please see below for the response to your inquiry, which can be...
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Ottawa’s LRT contract
Here’s the main agreement. It makes reference to several dozen schedules, not all of which have been released yet. View this document on Scribd
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The LRT contract is the ‘deal of the year,’ if you’re in the P3 business
The city touts this award, which apparently involved a gala dinner in New York City, that named Ottawa’s contract with Rideau Transit Group the “deal of the year” among North American public-private...
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How much extra we’re paying for the LRT’s ‘fixed cost’
Via Vancouver’s Frances Bula, who refers to it in an essay on how the P3 deal that produced that city’s Canada Line from the airport to downtown, here’s an interesting paper on the “second wave” of...
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LRT anchor bolt incident 'minor', official says
Hitting a parking garage with anchor bolts during light-rail transit construction was a “minor incident,” a city official said Thursday. “Obviously it wasn’t intended but (it was) a minor incident,”...
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Section of Transitway to close early for bridge repairs
Rusty beams on the Transitway bridge over the Rideau River are forcing the city to shut down a key section of the busway between Lees and Hurdman stations months ahead of schedule. That section of...
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City crews to resume LRT tunnel excavation this week
City crews are expected to resume excavation of the LRT tunnel this week after water is removed from the section underneath the Rideau Street sinkhole. City manager Steve Kanellakos wrote in a...
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Reevely: The city's plan to make a mess of the O-Train bike path
The city and its light-rail contractor had to be stopped from cutting one of Ottawa’s showpiece bike routes. The path runs from the Ottawa River to Carling Avenue, parallel to Preston Street, and it’s...
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LRT worker hit on head by hose receives minor injuries
A large concrete-supply hose struck a 40-year-old LRT worker on the head while he was in the tunnel on Saturday, but construction on the $2.1-billion transit project continued through the weekend. The...
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Disturbed soft soil from tunnel work played part in sinkhole, report says
LRT tunnelling work in soft ground likely contributed to the massive sinkhole that opened up on Rideau Street last June, a review of the incident makes clear. The root cause report, released Wednesday...
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Labour ministry made 49 'stop work' orders on LRT project
The Ontario Ministry of Labour has issued at least 49 “stop work” orders on the Confederation Line LRT project since the beginning of 2014, but the contractor says they were isolated issues not...
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LRT contractor wants to know why gas 'stub' was struck
The Rideau Transit Group, the city’s contractor on the $2.1-billion LRT project, says it’s trying to understand why a subcontractor didn’t know there was a stub for a natural gas line in the exact spot...
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