EDMONTON – LRT service was back to normal on Friday morning, after a power outage caused big disruptions on Wednesday night and all day Thursday.
On Wednesday night, thousands of hockey fans leaving the Edmonton Oilers game at Rexall were forced to wait for bus replacement service.
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Buses replaced the LRT in downtown Edmonton Thursday morning, where sections of both the Capital and Metro lines were down because of the outage.
During the Thursday morning commute, Edmonton transit sent out tweets saying bus replacement service would be running on the main Capital Line between the Coliseum and Corona LRT stations, and on the Metro Line/NAIT line between Kingsway and Corona.
An extra 15 buses were dispatched to shuttle LRT riders between the shut-down stations.
Later in the day trains on the main Capital Line began running every 10 minutes, but on the Metro Line, replacement buses were still in place from downtown to Grant MacEwan.
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Repair crews worked Wednesday night and all day Thursday. The city had hoped to have the problem fixed by 6 p.m., however crews weren’t able to meet that deadline. After testing was done, the line was put back into full service around 11 p.m.
“We apologize for this inconvenience,” added Koropeski.
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