Downtown businesses unsurprised and frustrated by LRT delay

The news of a delay in the opening of the city’s $2.1-billion light rail project, which has now been pushed back to November, attracted a chorus of groans from downtown businesses on Tuesday, but many are prepared to simply tough it out for another nine months.
“Of course we’d like to see the end of construction,” said Peggy DuCharme, executive director of the Downtown Rideau Business Improvement Area (BIA). “We’d been aware that the likelihood of them not mee