12-13-2016, 07:04 PM
(12-13-2016, 02:18 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: Sadly we have just passed what was supposed to have been a major milestone. According to a May 2016 report that seems to reference the original "agreement" trains 2 to 14 were supposed to have been here 10-Dec-2016 which means late fees are now being applied to all 14 trains now. I think it was about a week after this report that news of the revised schedule broke setting the completion date for all 14 back 10 months to October of 2017.
http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/region...pdf#page=3
On August 20, 2013 the Region entered into an Agreement with Bombardier Transportation Canada Inc. (“Bombardier”) for the purchase of 14 Light Rail Vehicles in connection with the Light Rail Transit Project (the “Agreement. The Agreement includes delivery of the first light rail vehicle by “no earlier than May 1, 2016 and no later than August 15, 2016” and delivery of the second to fourteenth vehicle by December 10, 2016.
Of course we wouldn't have been ready to receive 14 train sets last week anyway ... or the first train set in August. Our track construction is also behind schedule, although not as much as Bombardier.