[Willybru21]

If Metrolinx keep their promise to hold existing service levels at current total daily movements until electrification, is there any real advantage to them spending the money to cut in the switches and amend the signalling prior to that?

More service resiliency, additional passing locations, etc

 

[crs1026]

If Metrolinx keep their promise to hold existing service levels at current total daily movements until electrification, is there any real advantage to them spending the money to cut in the switches and amend the signalling prior to that?

Cash flow, cost of materials and labour, resource loading, and derisking..... if the whole project.coasts towards some immovable future milestone, then any delay or unforeseen problem that arises later will delay the end date.

One doesn't want to see major investments built but not used (401/409 tunnels on the Kitchenerline, for instance)... but this is not the place for a "just in time" strategy. The more that gets built sooner, the easier it will be to get the rest done later.

- Paul

 

[dowlingm]

More service resiliency, additional passing locations, etc

That’s worth some money but how much money is it worth, is what I’m saying. The other consideration is whether only having one live track for now reduces the need for slow orders or possessions at construction locations like Bloor-Lansdowne station.