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Council went behind closed doors to debate the future of Edmonton’s Metro LRT Line Friday as it stares down a self-imposed deadline to have it fixed.

Last December, council voted to give signalling contractor Thales Canada until April 30 to get the line running properly or face “serious consequences.” That’s just three days away.

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City council started debating the issue late Wednesday afternoon. Councillors went back in camera to debate it again at 11:30 a.m. Friday, expecting to continue long into the afternoon. Then they voted, unanimously, on an item that wasn’t revealed at 2:30 p.m. and left council chambers with several plates of uneaten snacks.

Mayor Don Iveson remained tight-lipped. “After April 30th there will be more to say.”

All updates on the troubled line have been in private since December, when city officials revealed there had been six significant signalling errors on the line since it opened. The computer sent a train onto the wrong track or failed to engage the traffic crossing arms properly.