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Day 7 - June 21
#OttawaLRT Inquiry Live Tweet Mega Thread!

Today's Guests:
Lowell Goudge (Alstom) – Morning
Jacques Bergeron (OLRT) – Afternoon

ottawalrtpublicinquiry.ca/public-hearing…
Slow start... looking for the witness.
Irony isn't lost on me.
Witness now found. Computer issues. Swearing in and now we start.
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Day 5 - June 17

#Ottawa Light Rail #Transit
#PublicInquiry #LiveTweet Mega Thread

🍾🎊😵

Today's guests:
Antonio Estrada (Rideau Transit Group) – Morning
Rupert Holloway (OLRT Constructors) – Afternoon

#Ottawa #OttawaLRT #OLRTCommision

ottawalrtpublicinquiry.ca/public-hearing…
Antonio of RTG starts the party off on time. He was RTG's first CEO from March 2013 to March 2018

He is (now?) working for ACS one of the construction partners.

The City approved his appointment.
Back and forth talking about how The City approves or disapproves board members.

Antonio's background is mostly in P3's

Now talking about P3's
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Day 4 - June 16

#Ottawa Light Rail Transit Commission Live Tweet Mega Thread 🎉

Today's guests:
Yves Declercq (Alstom) – Morning
Manuel Rivaya (OLRT Constructors) – Afternoon

#Ottawa #OttawaLRT #OLRTCommision

ottawalrtpublicinquiry.ca/public-hearing…
And we are starting on time.

They are talking in French, but "you'll be able to translate in zoom".

@CommissionOlrt such things don't exist for anyone watch the screen share live stream or after the fact recording.

At least the close captioning is in English :)
Finally translations came over ❤

Someone was trying to break into my apartment, they though I was moving out and needed a repaint.

Everything is about bidding, costs and what was requested by RTG/City.

No gems yet.
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Day 3
#OttawaLRT Inquiry Live Tweet Mega Thread

Today's guests:
John Traianopoulos (Infra Ont) - Morning
Nancy Schepers (City of Ottawa) - Afternoon

#Ottawa #ottLRT

ottawalrtpublicinquiry.ca/public-hearing…
For those tuning in. These things go from 9:00 to around 4:00 p.m. with a lunch break of 2 hours around 12:00 to 2:00.

I'm live tweeting the highlights and hypocrisy, with added commentary and sass that you have come to love 😂
Formatting.

Assume everything is paraphrased unless explicitly noted.

" " - direct quote, keyword highlight, lack of a better label
' ' - heavily paraphrased (to denote "storytelling")
[ ] - replaced words in a quote
Name: - the person talking
Random text - my commentary 😃
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Day 2
#OttawaLRT Commission Live Tweet Mega Thread

Today Guests:
- Rob Pattison (Infrastructure Ontario) – Morning
- Marian Simulik (City of Ottawa) – Afternoon

#Ottawa

ottawalrtpublicinquiry.ca/public-hearing…
So we now begin. We start be talking about AFP's and cost over runs and procurement process - and the role of Infrastructure Ontario.
Now we are getting into the muddy waters of P3.

Rob Pattison (witness) states designing, building and maintaining doesn't make a P3. It is the financing model that separates it from a traditional bid and build model.
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Voting records matter. Let’s take a trip down memory lane on now uncontested appointment, candidate Sudds. 1) Voted to give a Porsche dealership a $2.9 million tax break. 2) Didn’t want to use the word ‘emergency’ when it came to homelessness in Ottawa, while sitting as CPS chair
3) Voted to massively expand Ottawa’s sprawl, despite claiming to care about the environment. 4) Voted not once but twice to just accept the new design for the Chateau Laurier without pushing for more changes.
5) Voted to try and ensure that the Mayor did not have to meet with Indigenous leadership regarding the Taggart Tewin lands expansion. 6) Voted for more sprawl despite staff opposition to new lands, lobbied by Taggart
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Clarification on train issues from yesterday and today ⁦@OC_Transpo#OttawaLRT Image
Details on this morning. Image
Wheels. mechanical issue. power issues. 4 trains 48 hours
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13 trains makes the #OttawaLRT too fragile @JimWatsonOttawa tells me. 14th train almost ready for service will alleviate pressures in system his interview tonight @ctvottawa tonight.
Mayor says he will not “set his hair fire” over these chronic problems. Needs to calmly stabilize the @OC_Transpo system #OttawaLRT
Can’t rip up the contract Watson wants to deal with “engineers not lawyers” and get the system working. Too fragile even when all trains in service he says.
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Breaking: express buses from Hurdman and Tunney’s going for rush hour tomorrow clearly full trains are not going to be in place by tomorrow #OttawaLRT Image
John Manconi says the buses will create space on trains. Drop offs will be Albert and Slater. Costs passed on to RTG. This is a major return to express buses as LRT remains compromised.
Given the number of buses standing by this afternoon it appears @OC_Transpo is throwing a lot of resources while the trains are out of service.
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Latest update from @OC_Transpo just before afternoon rush hour: 10 trains instead of 13 that are required to run the system. This morning 11 trains ran instead of 13 #OttawaLRT
@OC_Transpo 2. This means longer wait times (every 5 minutes instead of every 4 minutes) and more crowds on platforms and on trains.
@OC_Transpo City says they have demanded the consortium fix this problem and make the system more reliable #OttawaLRT
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