Amare
Senior Member
And they are proud it will take them 15+ years to replace 4 ferries? This city is a joke.
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Why? They do not all need to be replaced at once and the City are trying to order them as they are needed but as part of a planned replacement. Seems pretty sensible to me!And they are proud it will take them 15+ years to replace 4 ferries? This city is a joke.
^Probably because smaller shipyards can't produce them in parallel.... and, as noted, there really isn't any rush.
What's interesting is that if the four are identical, they will all be larger than the Trillium (the oldest, and the largest one on hand), and much larger than the William Inglis - which is just a pocket ferry in comparison to the others.
The city has known since ~2015 that the ferries need to be replaced. They're already past their service life, and have had reliability issues for quite some time.Why? They do not all need to be replaced at once and the City are trying to order them as they are needed but as part of a planned replacement. Seems pretty sensible to me!
Considering their age I think that they have served the city well with a really good safety record.‘I’ve been in car crashes, but it was worse than that’: Toronto Island ferry crash rattles injured passengers
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is sending a team of investigators to probe the weekend crash. The ferry was cleared for a return to service Monday afternoon.www.thestar.com
I'm sure we discussed the replacement of the Ferry fleet elsewhere, but as I can't find that, I'll post this here:
Toronto Bids Portal
wx.toronto.ca
RFP for 2 new ferries is out, one passenger-only, one passenger and vehicle.
I'm assuming by vehicle, it is for the city to move it's equipment on and off the island like the one they currently have?
It would be quite a awful if they were suddenly allowing cars there.