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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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03-28-2016, 04:09 PM
(03-28-2016, 03:34 PM)BuildingScout Wrote: What I mean is that the typical contractor has no great incentive to deliver a project in time. Here the contractor and operator are one and the same, so their interests are linked in a way they usually aren't.

Which is a good thing! The Region was wise to make the contract that way, so that the contractor would need to operate the very system they built.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by KevinL - 03-28-2016, 04:09 PM
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