New signs in place, but no update on opening of O-Train east extension

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Transit riders may have noticed some new signage at O-Train stations in recent days pointing passengers east to Trim Station, which hasn’t yet opened as part of the much-delayed Line 1 east extension to Orléans.

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Keen-eyed observers may have also noticed the occasional train heading east from Blair Station, which is currently the easternmost stop on Line 1.

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Those trains, officials said, are running without passengers as part of OC Transpo‘s “final preparations” for the east extension.

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“This includes operating trains in the east extension for operator training, familiarization and practice activities and other work on the guideway,” said Richard Holder, director of the rail construction program.

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OC Transpo officials had initially delayed the east extension to June, but at a transit committee meeting in April associate general manager Troy Charter said that timeline was “no longer a possibility.”

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OC Transpo said extensive “spalling” and “shelling” damage to the cartridge-bearing assemblies on the Line 1 train cars’ wheel hubs meant that all trains exceeding 100,000 kilometres would be pulled from service.

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Those cars have been gradually fitted with new cartridge-bearing assemblies. Each train car was also to be fitted with a “smart bug” system to monitor conditions in real time.

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Charter said at the time that OC Transpo would require 46 trains in service to begin the trial running phase. A 21-day trial running is required before the east extension can be certified and before it can open to passengers.

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Officials said in April that the testing phase could begin in “two to five months.”

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OC Transpo did not have an updated timeline as of this week.

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“Installation of the condition monitoring system is still underway and is expected to continue for several more weeks,” Holder said in a July 23 statement.

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“We will provide council and the media with an update on the timing and status of formal trial running as soon as that information is available.”

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