Service for Ottawa’s O-Train Line 1 is back online after OC Transpo completed a software update for the line. While train service was scheduled to begin at noon on Sunday to allow OC Transpo to install a software update, the transit service announced the line had reopened earlier than anticipated shortly after 10 a.m. OC Transpo implemented the software update as part of its rollout for the Stage 2 East Extension. The transit service delayed pre-trial running for the extension after Hitachi, the train-control software subcontractor to East-West Connectors, detected issues with its safety-critical software. Earlier this month, OC Transpo general manager Rick Leary said the service will begin operating trains along the entire length of Line 1 on Nov. 22 as a dress rehearsal for the launch of the extension. While trains will run between Tunney’s Pasture and Trim stations during this exercise, customer will be required to disembark at Blair Station. OC Transpo has not stated when pre-trial testing, a crucial part of the testing phase, will begin. Pre-trial running will take at least a week and will be followed by a 21-day trial running period.
