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How many vehicles are needed for opening day?
According to Waterloo Regional Councillor Tom Galloway on 570News' Mike Farwell show yesterday, delivery of the second vehicle will now take place in October.
Looking more and more likely that I'll win my bet about Ottawa's Confederation Line beating Ion into service.
I don't really see any reason why they wouldn't they started construction before Ion did and they didn't sign a deal with Metrolinx to procure their cars. Metrolinx then, of course, has had so many thing changed on them since they ordered them that Ion now has to go through the test and adjust period that they didn't plan on in the beginning.Looking more and more likely that I'll win my bet about Ottawa's Confederation Line beating Ion into service.
I don't really see any reason why they wouldn't they started construction before Ion did
It just goes to show you that putting faith in metrolinx to deliver on time is a bad idea.Sure. But Ottawa has had a much more complex and expensive build, with the tunnel through the city centre. And Ottawa was scheduled to open later, by is now running neck and neck. What's incredible here is that Ottawa was actually set back a few months by the sinkhole on Rideau St. Otherwise, it's very realistic that Ottawa actually might have had their system in service before KWC.
It just goes to show you that putting faith in metrolinx to deliver on time is a bad idea.
It just goes to show you that putting faith in metrolinx to deliver on time is a bad idea.
Nope Toronto city council and it's endless gong show of cancelled and changed lrt projects are more to blame for late deliveries of the lrt for this project. Metrolinx also bit off way more than they can chew trying to do so many projects at once and having no experience what so ever in them. Metrolinx continued to make changes to the order that deleyed production but they don't want to take any blame so they want to blame bombardier because they are already taking the blame for the TTC Streetcars.I fail to see what Metrolinx did wrong. Aggregating orders was actually a good thing. Good prices for the whole region for economy of scale. Nobody could have known in advance how badly Bombardier would screw up. And to be fair, I don't even think Bombardier knew!
The problem now isn't assembly of the vehicles. The vehicle assembly is going largely according to the revised schedule. The problem now is the integration with the signalling system that was chosen by Grandlinq.