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Following two derailments that kept the LRT offline for weeks last year, federal officials were concerned about how the issues would be fixed, if the problems had consequences for the O-Train Stage 2 extension and about the optics of continuing to pay for project.
On the final day of testimony at the public inquiry investigating Ottawa's light rail system, the commission saw video of the incident that arguably led to it all in the first place: a derailed train pulling out of Tremblay Station last fall, spewing stones onto the platform.
The final day of four weeks of testimony at the Ottawa light rail transit public inquiry heard from RTG CEO Nicolas Truchon and Mario Guerra, the CEO of Rideau Transit Maintenance, who spoke about strained relationships with not just the city, but within their own organization.
The first day of the four-week public inquiry into the Confederation Line's problems asked many of the hot-button issues the public has asked for years.