[Richard White]

Serious question.

How long do we have before equipment and infrastructure need tending to?

I am thinking of things like refits and rebuilds for the vehicles or repairs to the stations and tunnels.

It's fun to laugh about but this thing has been delayed so long that we may actually hit the point where the vehicles need mid-life rebuilds before the system even opens.

 

[PurplePinky]

This has been going on for many months now.

The cars are sitting out in all kinds of weather, rusting away over time with little to no maintenance.

With no regular usage, it won’t be long til they need ‘replacing’ or ‘outdated’. MOO

Well, here’s my opinion of the toll taken. Responses followed the earlier posting.

 

[Steve X]

My previous comment was not a joke. I have seen it happen with 5 trains following behind at every signalized block. Remember this is before the riders gets on to play around with all the equipment!

 

[hawc]

I dunno..... this all feels more and more like a cracked foundation slab under Eglinton Station.

 

[Bojaxs]

I dunno..... this all feels more and more like a cracked foundation slab under Eglinton Station.

At this point, it wouldn't shock me if we see them bust out the jackhammers again and start knocking down a station or ripping up a portion of the tracks because they now realise after testing that it wasn't built to spec.

 

[The REAL]

This is the BIGGEST money laundering project in Canadian history.

 

[PL1]

This is the BIGGEST money laundering project in Canadian history.

How so?

 

[Metroscapes]

The state of this thread is a testament to how bad these delays are. We have little of substance to talk about. No facts or transparent status updates are being provided. It's just spiraling in this void of information, flooding with new users and wild accusations.

 

[ShonTron]

The state of this thread is a testament to how bad these delays are. We have little of substance to talk about. No facts or transparent status updates are being provided. It's just spiraling in this void of information, flooding with new users and wild accusations.

This is thanks to the culture of secrecy at Metrolinx, which was bad under the Liberals but has gotten even worse under Doug Ford.

 

[ElrondHubbard]

I dunno..... this all feels more and more like a cracked foundation slab under Eglinton Station.

This site allows a limited number of emojis to 'like' or react to posts. I wish they would add animated GIFs. I have one in mind in particular: bashing forehead against wall.

Another goody: stabbing your own eye with a fork. Something, ANYTHING to express the appropriate level of frustration.

 

[Jonny5]

At this point, it wouldn't shock me if we see them bust out the jackhammers again and start knocking down a station or ripping up a portion of the tracks because they now realise after testing that it wasn't built to spec.

Don't say that or some TTC and Metrolinx boffins will see it and have the grand idea of "well if we're doing that, then we might as well take the chance to rebuild all of Eglinton station on the Yonge line too. It should only take two or three or maybe five years, tops." Nine years later it finally re-opens.

 

[cplchanb]

Im just disappointed that the press didnt challenge Lindsay harder like pressure him on giving specifics of what the current roadblocks are and what they are doing to remediate.
also question why they are still taking a very lax tempo to testing and commissioning.

 

[Bojaxs]

This is the BIGGEST money laundering project in Canadian history.

Canadian real estate was inundated with money laundering because it was a great place for wealthy people to park their money and allow it to accumulate over time (perhaps not the case as of late). I don't think this transit line is a great place for someone to launder their money because it's a financial blackhole where money goes in and disappears.

No one is going to see a return on their investment with this transit project.

 

[A 6264]

Canadian real estate was inundated with money laundering because it was a great place for wealthy people to park their money and allow it to accumulate over time (perhaps not the case as of late). I don't think this transit line is a great place for someone to launder their money because it's a financial blackhole where money goes in and disappears.

No one is going to see a return on their investment with this transit project.

I don't know what the original poster meant, but here's a possible explanation. You're talking about the transit line itself, but for investments, it's all about property alongside the corridors, especially any piece of property big enough to knock down whatever's there and build a condo on it. These can indeed be long-term investments, because someone who bought property along Eglinton before 2010, when the route was first approved, or even proposed and just an idea on a drawing board, is still waiting for their investment to mature. Also, I can well imagine people buying property along a road where no transit line is planned yet, but could be, and then lobbying the government to build transit along the road where their property exists. This also counts as investment activity. And all this long term investment could involve laundering money, but identifying where exactly it's happening is way beyond the scope of this discussion.

 

[Bojaxs]

I don't know what the original poster meant, but here's a possible explanation. You're talking about the transit line itself, but for investments, it's all about property alongside the corridors, especially any piece of property big enough to knock down whatever's there and build a condo on it. These can indeed be long-term investments, because someone who bought property along Eglinton before 2010, when the route was first approved, or even proposed and just an idea on a drawing board, is still waiting for their investment to mature. Also, I can well imagine people buying property along a road where no transit line is planned yet, but could be, and then lobbying the government to build transit along the road where their property exists. This also counts as investment activity. And all this long term investment could involve laundering money, but identifying where exactly it's happening is way beyond the scope of this discussion.

If that's the motivation here, then why wasn't a proper subway constructed along Eglinton? As that would have increase property values much higher compared to what's currently been constructed. Particularly along the Golden Mile stretch.