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New signal malfunctions on the Metro LRT Line Saturday that put a train on the wrong track have left one city councillor “absolutely frustrated.”

“I want a solution to this so we’re not here again,” Ward 2 Coun. Bev Esslinger said Sunday. “We’re going to have some difficult conversations, ask some of those difficult questions.”

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She’s pushing to discuss the train line’s beleaguered signal system at a Tuesday city council meeting to learn council’s options. The Metro Line ends in Esslinger’s north-side ward.

On Saturday, the software telling the LRT operator which track to use at NAIT station failed twice as Metro trains approached the end of the line, Edmonton Transit Service branch manager Eddie Robar said Sunday.

At around 6:30 a.m. Saturday, the signal misdirected a driver leaving Kingsway station onto a track at NAIT station where a train was already sitting, he said. As soon as the driver saw another train ahead of him, he stopped, Robar said. Even if he hadn’t, trains are equipped with a fail-safe system that automatically shuts down the engine if it is too close to another train.