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The Rideau Transit Group says it has found the two train computers that, according to the City of Ottawa, went missing while the builder was trying to get the Confederation Line LRT up and running.

When the city revealed in September that the $2.1-billion LRT system wouldn’t be ready for a Nov. 2 handover from RTG, staff said the builder had lost track of two Thales on-board control computers, leading to a second missed deadline in six months. It irked the city when staff found out in late summer about the computer conundrum, since train assembly was one part of the project that was going well.

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RTG spokesman Conrad McCallum confirmed on Tuesday that the builder had found the computer modules, which are the brains of the trains, allowing the vehicles to communicate with the signals and other transit infrastructure.

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City council’s finance and economic development committee is scheduled to receive an update on the Confederation Line project on Wednesday morning, and unless information comes to a future council meeting, it could be the last time this year that senior staff bring politicians up to speed in a public forum on LRT.

The city will be pressured to provide a new launch date for the LRT system.

There’s no hiding that there’s still plenty of work to do.