LRT service cut because of latest St-Laurent ceiling concern

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OC Transpo is running fewer train trips and adding replacement buses on the eastern end of the Confederation Line Tuesday morning after an “area of concern” was found in the St-Laurent station’s ceiling.

Replacement buses and trains running between Blair, St-Laurent stations

A train rail car sits at a underground transit platform.
Ottawa’s St-Laurent light rail stop along the Confederation Line in 2019. There have been recurring problems with its ceiling. (Andrew Lee/CBC)

OC Transpo is running fewer train trips and adding replacement buses on the eastern end of the Confederation Line Tuesday morning after an “area of concern” was found in the St-Laurent station’s ceiling.

Trains are running about every 15 minutes between Blair and St-Laurent stations, according to the second of two overnight memos from transit leadership: one at 10 p.m. Monday and the second at about 12:45 a.m. Tuesday.

R1 replacement buses are running between those stations. Express E1 buses are running as normal straight from Blair to downtown.

West of St-Laurent, trains are running every five or six minutes, the second memo said. Only St-Laurent’s westbound platform is open.

Previous problems with the ceiling over St-Laurent station included debris falling onto tracks in January and “disrupted” ceiling tiles in May that CBC learned more about through a freedom of information request.

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