How is Ottawa's new central library like the LRT? Delays, cost overruns and secrecy | Opinion |
Brigitte Pellerin: The library isn’t a train. But have we learned nothing from the LRT experience?
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Ādisōke, the new central library, is supposed to showcase what’s best about Ottawa but the process to build it is telling a different story — one of unexplained delays, cost increases and loss of accountability. It won’t do.
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