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At this point,t he best we can hope for is that he sees it as value for the people who vote him in. If he doesn't, it could be gone. And this is why something needs to happen to fix that on time performance sooner rather than later.
Agreed. And to be clear, there is also a difference between infant failures and design faults. Design faults can be corrected so that future generations don't seen them, but even mature products can have infant failures. That is why in mission critical applications they will often put the product through a "burn in" period to try and catch those infant failures, so they won't see them in the field. The issue is it both costs money and reduces the life of the product as you are that much closer to the "wear out" phase. This is different from Environment Stress Testing, which is done on both new products (to try and catch design faults) and on a sample basis during production (to catch manufacturing process issues).
Agreed, but VIA had taken steps in acquiring Ventures which should have significantly insulated them compared to new model stock e.g. LRC's rollout. It was certainly one of the reasons that I thought it made sense to go with them rather than try and engineer a solution with more made-in-Canada content, such as having Thunder Bay build something for Alstom similar to what Connecticut are getting - we desperately needed new, reliable equipment to displace the Rens and LRCs and what we bought needed to be as quick an introduction as practicable.
Maybe because these are just conceptual drawings and may be very different from whatever VIA may or may not be allowed to procure? Still, certainly interesting, but I don‘t understand the commentary provided by Alexander…
Yup. They tested them on the Chatham sub to see if it would work to be deployed to Windsor but they decided not to. Likely because they are not heavy enough to trigger the Crossing.
IIRC, this was exactly the issue why RDCs could not be deployed on the Corridor. They would have been a great match for Train 85/88…
So, this has been a known thing. That says this is on Via then.They knowingly bought something incompatible, and did not make it compatible on day one.It is almost like people in Via do not know what they are doing, or are trying to get it shut down.
Have you missed the last month of conversation? This has been covered here ad nauseam in multiple threads. And you participate in most of them.
Weight has nothing to do with it. This too has been covered many times now.
