Editorial: Ottawa's light rail system comes unglued

Among the assorted bugs and gremlins plaguing Ottawa’s light-rail system, commuters this week learned of another: a broken weld between two rails. Trains running near Hurdman LRT station had to slow to 10 km/h. To the public, it was a surprising glitch: during a recent six-hour-plus transit commission meeting on rail snafus, staff never raised the possibility of this problem. Read More