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It doesn’t look good for anyone who was hoping to ride the Confederation Line LRT by the end of April.

The public learned this week there’s a disagreement about the March 31 handover deadline of the $2.1-billion LRT system from the Rideau Transit Group to the City of Ottawa.

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RTG, the builder, thinks it can deliver a fully completed, safe transit system by then. The city doesn’t believe it.

So where does that leave taxpayers and OC Transpo customers who have been waiting for six years while the rail line is being constructed?

Here’s what we know and don’t know.

If RTG doesn’t deliver the LRT system by March 31, when will it?

No one knows yet. For sure, though, the public would need even more patience. When RTG missed the Nov. 2, 2018 handover, it had 60 days to propose a new date. If RTG doesn’t deliver on March 31, it might not be until the end of May that the city knows when the consortium will try again. A new handover date must be at least a month after the last handover date. It’s up to RTG, not the city, to propose the handover date.