Anticipated LRT testing postponed due to missing paperwork

The Ion LRTvehicle testing set for Thursday has been postponed until further noticedue to missing documentation from Bombardier, according to Coun. Tom Galloway.

"It's a little bit complicated," Gallowaytold CBC News, adding he was told"there's some documentation thatGrandLinqis still waiting for."

Galloway said he does not know the nature of the documentation needed by GrandLinq.

CBCNews learned that project partners were still working out the details for the vehicle testing Thursday morning, but then testing was postponed without a new date being set.

Thursday tow test nixed

The LRT vehicle was expected to be towed for systems testing on Thursday.

• LRT testing on tracks this week, region sticks to 2018 LRT launch

"There's a whole host of systems on the train that need to be tested from doors, to lights, to wheels on the tracks," Tom Galloway, regional councillor and chair of the Region of Waterloo's planning and works committee, said on Monday.

In mid-November, the region expects the vehicle will be ready for an auto-powered test, one where it would runon a length of test track without a tow vehicle.

Galloway said this testpostponement will not affect the LRT launch date.

"At this point in time, it doesn't appear that [the testing] is critical to the start of the service in spring of 2018," he said.