5 questions about uploading Ottawa’s LRT network [Video]

Both the Progressive Conservatives and the Liberals have promised to upload responsibility for Ottawa’s LRT if elected. CBC’s Robyn Miller spent the day trying to find out what this might actually look like.

On Tuesday, two of Ontario’s provincial party leaders pledged to significantly reshape the future of transit in the nation’s capital.

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford and Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie both vowed that, if elected premier on Feb. 27, they would upload responsibility for Ottawa’s light rail network to the province.

Ford said the provincial Metrolinx agency would take over. Doing so, he said, would “free up significant funds and capital.”

The Liberals, meanwhile, said their plan would not involve Metrolinx as it currently operates, with Orléans candidate Stephen Blais citing that as a potential “recipe for disaster.”

Here are five questions about what uploading LRT might mean for the city.