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'We have not reached the finish line. With the first phase of trial running complete, our focus now shifts to putting our operational planning into practice.'
Blair Crawford
Published Oct 21, 2024
The O-Train is tested along the Trillium line as it pulls into the station at the Ottawa Airport on Wednesday. Photo by Julie Oliver /POSTMEDIA
The Trillium Line has cleared its biggest hurdle, successfully completing a 14-day trial run it had to pass before the city would accept its newest light-rail transit line.
“As the future maintainer of Line 2 and Line 4, TransitNEXT has successfully completed their final exam,” Transit general manager Renée Amilcar said Monday, saying she made the announcement with “humility and great joy.”
“We have not reached the finish line,” she cautioned. “With the first phase of trial running complete, our focus now shifts to putting our operational planning into practice.”
The train achieved a 99.5 per cent reliability standard in a rolling average over the two-week trial, easily meeting the 98.5 per cent passing grade set by the city. After narrowly missing that mark on Day 1 with a 98.3 per cent score, the testing surpassed the standard for the next 12 days, scoring a perfect 100 per cent on six of them. Reliability on Sunday, Day 14 of testing, was 98.4 per cent, but did not affect the final grade.
A second seven-day phase of trials began Monday afternoon, when the operator will practise 15 different situations such as what to do if there is a stalled train, a delay caused by problems opening or closing doors, or how to operate when the line is reduced to a single track. This phase isn’t part of the pass/fail decision but is described by Amilcar as a chance for OC Transpo operators to “play” with the new system.
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