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Mayor Jim Watson says he’s “disappointed” the $60-million O-Train expansion has failed to live up to the promise of a train every eight minutes.

When council approved the project in 2011, one of its main selling features was slashing the wait time between trains from 15 minutes to eight minutes. But OC Transpo officials now say the original design frequency of eight-to-10 minutes was “an ambitious goal,” and admit the current frequency is closer to 11 -to-11.5 minutes.

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“When we were told about the plan, it was going to be faster and more frequent service and we haven’t lived up to that, and obviously I’m disappointed,” Watson said. “I think this is a good lesson for us to make sure we continue to push our staff for the details to make sure what they’re promising us and what they’re delivering are the same thing.”

The news about lower-than-expected frequency is another black eye for the O-Train expansion, which was months overdue when it finally left the station in March of this year.