Snake escape added to growing list of reasons Ottawa’s LRT service has been disrupted | 24CA News

A snake on a prepare just lately grew to become the newest reason for a disruption to Ottawa’s light-rail transit system.

Hurdman Station’s eastbound platform was quickly closed for greater than an hour final Friday as OC Transpo workers and a passenger looked for the serpent on the unfastened.

OC Transpo tweeted at 7:26 p.m. that the platform was shut down due to an issue with an escaped dwell animal.

The transit authority introduced at 8:56 p.m. that the problem was resolved.

OC Transpo mentioned the pet snake was safely captured and returned to its proprietor.

The snake escape was a peculiar addition to a rising record of incidents which have induced LRT shutdowns within the capital metropolis, together with derailments, brake faults and weather-related failures.