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The middle of Ottawa’s Line 1 light rail line has reopened after it shut down at the end of the revamped Monday morning peak due to an unspecified problem.
Service at uOttawa, Lees and Hurdman stations had been reduced to one platform running both directions around 9 a.m.
R1 replacement buses then took over the trains between Rideau and Hurdman stations, OC Transpo posted on social media around 11:20 a.m.
Around 10:40 a.m., it told riders that trains were coming about every 20 minutes. By early afternoon, that was reduced to 10 minutes, and the line fully reopened by 1:40 p.m.
The problem comes on the first weekday of OC Transpo’s significant end-of-summer changes that, in part, are supposed to bring trains every six minutes between the morning and afternoon peaks and every four minutes during those peaks.