By Kelly Egan, Ottawa Citizen, March 16, 2020
Rideau Transit Group didn’t deliver the required number of trains for 25 consecutive rush-hour periods in January and badly flunked other basic performance standards, the City of Ottawa said in a blistering letter released Friday.
The so-called “notice of default” — a legal step triggering a process to potentially end the contract — lays out the major shortcomings in RTG’s 30-year contractual obligation to maintain and run Ottawa’s $2.1-billion light-rail system.
It also makes another devastating allegation: that RTG misrepresented itself as a consortium that was competent to maintain and run a new light-rail system intended to carry as many as 20,000 passengers per hour.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/city-hammers-rtg-performance-in-notice-of-lrt-contract-failure