The work is planned and will take place on weekdays between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., and will continue until April 2020, the city says. 

The memo comes a day after a call for an emergency meeting of the transit commission was denied.

Delays were so long in fact that some buses were ordered to continue driving downtown to alleviate the backlog

On Saturday afternoon, OC Transpo welcomed passengers aboard the long-awaited, long-delayed Confederation Line.

In an update on Thursday, OC Transpo boss John Manconi said a data logger tracking system alarms will now be monitored 24/7, instead of intermittently, after Wednesday's episode.

The news comes more than 15 months after the Rideau Transit Group was originally due to deliver the LRT system and a week and a half before the train officially opens.

While the budget for Phase 2 has already been approved, construction couldn't begin until all the funding was approved.

RTG's CEO Peter Lauch says he's "confident" the consortium will hand over the LRT system on March 31, but OC Transpo's general manager John Manconi says he's "highly skeptical."

The Rideau Transit Group was supposed to provide the City of Ottawa with a new handover date for the Confederation Line on Jan. 2, after blowing past two deadlines in 2018.

The head of OC Transpo made it clear on Wednesday the transit agency will not totally backpedal fall changes to bus routes that have been "directly" impacted by the delayed launch of Ottawa's light rail transit (LRT) line.