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最近法庭判决：渥太华无法从10亿美元的维护合同中撤出，渥太华已经同意支付从2019年9月到2022年底6500万欠款的一部分。和解协议细节大部分仍然保密。当时的市长Watson 和交通主管Manconi多次告诉公众，由于服务质量差，市里没有付款。
渥太华于2020年3月由于一系列事故，2021年秋季由于出轨事故，两次上诉要求解除与RTG30年10亿元的维护合同。
LRT settlement gives builders millions in back pay, keeps their contract
Settlement also closes door on Ottawa leaving the 30-year maintenance contract
Joanne Chianello · CBC News · Posted: Feb 06, 2023 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 6 hours ago
Crews work on a stalled LRT train near Lees station in January. The city has agreed to pay Rideau Transit Group millions of dollars in withheld maintenance payments as part of a new settlement, CBC has learned. (David Bates-Taillefer/CBC)
The City of Ottawa is retroactively paying the consortium that built the Confederation Line millions of dollars for maintaining the LRT network as far back as the start of service in 2019, CBC has learned.
The money is part of a settlement package between the city and Rideau Transit Group (RTG) that puts to rest a number of disputes, including disagreements over maintenance payments.
It could be a turning point in the often-fractious relationship, as it makes good on a key recommendation in the light rail public inquiry report which urged the two parties to repair their partnership.
However, most of the details of the settlement remain secret.
- City, RTG settle their light rail contract dispute
- 'Egregious violations of public trust': LRT rushed into service, commission finds
Now, according to CBC sources familiar with the deal, the city has agreed to pay a portion of the $65 million withheld from RTG's maintenance arm from September 2019 to the end of 2022.
No getting out of $1B maintenance contract
The consortium — comprised of SNC Lavalin, ACS Infrastructure and Ellis Don — has also made concessions in the settlement package, CBC has learned, including promising to hire about a dozen more people by spring to provide more service to the city.A key part of the deal is that it puts to rest the issue of default, a legal term indicating the group of companies wasn't living up to its contract with the city.
Ottawa served RTG with two separate notices of default: one in March 2020 due to a litany of problems that arose after the Confederation Line's launch and one in the fall of 2021 connected to derailments.
The city escalated the notice over the derailments to court in December 2021, asking a judge to confirm the default — an official step needed in the process for breaking the 30-year maintenance contract.
That's all over now.
In a densely worded legal statement the two sides released 10 days ago, RTG acknowledged it had not lived up to the contract, ending the need to keep arguing the point in court. The statement also said the settlement "resolves" the city's notices of default against RTG.
That means even though RTG finally agreed it breached the contract after years of legal fighting, the city has in turn also agreed to no longer consider RTG in default, thus closing the door on getting out of the $1-billion maintenance contract.
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