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cplchanb said:
Nice....so all they did for over month since they announced on their site:http://www.thecrosstown.ca/news-media/whats-new/demolition-work-for-future-eglinton-station-0
was park a few sea containers and a trailer...Even if they can blame the unseasonably cold weather for not digging at least they can tear down the structures. I'm pretty sure you dont need 15C weather to do that..... Now I'm beginning to understand why its going to take until 2021....this is a clear example of the inefficiencies in their construction scheduling.
Either that or theres a serious disconnect between them and PR. Either way... we're still on the hook to pay for a trailer sittting in an empty lot with no activity/progress going on.
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Its all being built at once so what's the rush? They could have this station done today and it would still sit empty until 2021 either way.
 
rbt said:
And a valid and winnable lawsuit from Bombardier if the city failed to follow bidding rules and went with the higher bidder. Also, Miller was elected largely because of the MFP scandal which was caused almost entirely by not following the cities tendering practices.
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And yet bidding rules and tendering practices can only get you so far - now you're stuck with someone who basically can't deliver to the terms of the contract. Time is money afterall.

What I really wanted to see is an analysis of city procurement and see just what percentage of bids actually ended up delayed and overbudget.

AoD
 
Edward Skira said:
Its all being built at once so what's the rush? They could have this station done today and it would still sit empty until 2021 either way.[/QUOTE
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its amazing how we keep hearting 2021 for how and will still be told it came in on time. Like they kept increasing the Pan Am Games budget and said it came in on budget at the end
 
AlvinofDiaspar said:
And yet bidding rules and tendering practices can only get you so far - now you're stuck with someone who basically can't deliver to the terms of the contract. Time is money afterall.
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Sure, shit happens and things don't always turn out the way you would hope. My intention was to point out the city had no choice but to go with Bombardier for the streetcars at that time; our own electorate including many people on this forum at that time would have been super furious even without direct legal consequences.

AlvinofDiaspar said:
What I really wanted to see is an analysis of city procurement and see just what percentage of bids actually ended up delayed and overbudget.
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That would be interesting. Overbudget is tricky because more often than not it's in direct response to citizen demands (contract changes).
 
Where is the location of the extraction shaft for the east TBMs. Between Yonge and Dunfield it looks like they might be beginning to dig a new shaft.
 
Juan_Lennon416 said:
I cannot believe that tunneling for the Eglinton Streetcar/Train/LRT is almost over. Time flies!
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That was the easy part (relatively) & a little more tunneling from the east.
Now the real work begins , building all the underground stations ( Yonge will take a while) & maintenance yard @ Mt Dennis !
On top out east mostly should be easy.
 
Now that the West Tunnel is complete (8 months ahead of schedule!!!), the TBM components (conveyors, etc...) should be able to be disassembled while they wait to extract then TBM head. I wonder if that means they can begin station construction on Eglinton west of Yonge, while the TBM is still in the ground awaiting extraction at Yonge.
 
Overall I am pretty impressed so far with Metrolinx's first take on a Toronto-specific transit mega-project. (Bureaucratic station naming idiocy aside)

I hope I won't have to be eating my words by 2021.
 
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