DonValleyRainbow
Senior Member
To clarify, I was only talking broadly about building Big Move projects in their entirety. My expectation is that any new transit project would be designed 100% AODA compliant.
Is this because there's a fixed pool of Metrolinx-related construction employees, and they're reallocated to other projects that needs urgency, such as Union revitalization and the UPX? Many projects (not sure which, but many) seem to be run by the same construction company that seems to be prioritizing one project over the other. Will this mean once UPX is up and running in the spring, there'll be a sudden beehive of activity at other places like JamesNorth GO?
And just today, Plenary Infrastructure (which involves contractors Kiewit and Bird as part of the consortium) won the East Rail Maintenance Facility.
What makes you think that they're going anywhere? They won the tender to operate Deltaport 3 or 4 years ago.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
its a bit of an odd bunch of companies, to be honest. not your typical Bondfield, Ellis Don, etc.
I don't really think so. Kiewit is one of the largest contractors in the world. I think that most years it is even larger than PCL, and it is certainly way bigger than Aecon, EllisDon, or Bondfield. I know that it is uncommon to see them in Ontario, which is likely the reason for the partnership with Bird Construction, which has a big presence here nowadays, despite being from Saskatchewan.
Plenary and Kiewit are part of GrandLinq, which is building the ION light rail project in Waterloo Region.
RFI-2014-RFF-009: Supply Electric Multiple Units, Electric Locomotives And Dual Mode Locomotives
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