It would have been standard, if Metrolinx had spec’d it in a timely manner.
They did not. This is the whole reason the project is so woefully delayed!
They dragged their heels so much with it that finally the Region had no choice but to strike it out on their own. And they did so a year after the system was originally supposed to be in revenue service.
But, the media and the public? “It’s all Bombardier’s fault.”
/rant
PS, Bombardier makes their own system called CITYFLO. Our trains could have been standard, as you say, but the choice was by others not to go this route.
They did not. This is the whole reason the project is so woefully delayed!
They dragged their heels so much with it that finally the Region had no choice but to strike it out on their own. And they did so a year after the system was originally supposed to be in revenue service.
But, the media and the public? “It’s all Bombardier’s fault.”
/rant
PS, Bombardier makes their own system called CITYFLO. Our trains could have been standard, as you say, but the choice was by others not to go this route.