[Jm gravel]

Free Christmas present for the long suffering taxpayers of Toronto?

 

[youngblood]

The fiasco continues...

Pile the pressure on.

Nothing to get rid of all the bad PR like a ribbon cutting ceremony.

 

[hw621]

Pile the pressure on.

Nothing to get rid of all the bad PR like a ribbon cutting ceremony.

I, on the contrary, wonder if this will cause further delay, I.e., the union refused to let drivers operate the line out of "safety" concerns...

 

[RS1]

I, on the contrary, wonder if this will cause further delay, I.e., the union refused to let drivers operate the line out of "safety" concerns...

Haven't they already been operating this whole time?

 

[hw621]

Haven't they already been operating this whole time?

Why would the union come out and say something like this now?

 

[RS1]

Why would the union come out and say something like this now?

No idea.

You may not be wrong, but I was just pointing out that they've been operating all through the RSD so it'd be strange for them to claim a safety concern now given they didn't immediately pull all of their members after the accident.

 

[youngblood]

Why would the union come out and say something like this now?

The union is not the cause of any delay at this point. Drivers have been training for a year. I doubt the union would want to step in the crosshairs for a delay when the TTC and Metrolinx have both signed off that Line 5 is good to go.

 

[hw621]

The union is not the cause of any delay at this point. Drivers have been training for a year. I doubt the union would want to step in the crosshairs for a delay when the TTC and Metrolinx have both signed off that Line 5 is good to go.

When they would offer the union some incentive to keep quiet?

 

[hawc]

So once testing is done? What's the next thing that has to happen before it opens? Is it another few months of something? Or does it just open? Could it actually open in 2025?

 

[Diablo1983]

Minister of Transportation basically said they're handing it over to the TTC within 2 weeks and they could open anytime after that. Essentially throwing it into the TTC's court to open before year's end so they can finally wash their hands of this...."ask the TTC - we handed it over to them."

TTC has to deal with the union.

 

[Diablo1983]

They also mentioned more training - what on earth are you still training at this point? If they have operated the line in a revenue demo for 30 days, they know what they need to know.

 

[hw621]

They also mentioned more training - what on earth are you still training at this point? If they have operated the line in a revenue demo for 30 days, they know what they need to know.

Or they don't. They are just stalling...

 

[PL1]

My opinion: the union (i.e. representing the future operators) wants to know what happened in the yard accident/collision. Metrolinx/Crosslinx isn't saying because the line hasn't been handed over to TTC yet, so they figure tey need not (or are contractually bound not to) share the details.

 

[nfitz]

They also mentioned more training - what on earth are you still training at this point?

In the years that passed since the original training, they probably need to replace the retirees - and those who have died from old age.

 

[jordanmkasla2009]

I, on the contrary, wonder if this will cause further delay, I.e., the union refused to let drivers operate the line out of "safety" concerns...

the only thing they'll likely discover is that one of the switches in the yard track was misconfigured and that it's now fixed.

In the years that passed since the original training, they probably need to replace the retirees - and those who have died from old age.

/s ? it's only been less than a year since they trained the operators...