(05-12-2017, 10:30 AM)Markster Wrote:(05-12-2017, 07:27 AM)MacBerry Wrote: A quick primer on the next possible LRT vehicles that may come to #Waterloo Region in Phase 2 development. #Metrolinx moves their next piece on the #LRT chessboard and says "check" #Bombardier
Our fleet is so small, that there's no way they'll go with another manufacturer for phase 2. Bombardier would have to literally be out of business. There are just too many efficiencies to be had with buying more Felxities. And, we need few enough vehicles, that Bombardier, even at their lethargic pace, can still make them in a reasonable time!
What happens to Waterloo LRT if Bombardier does go out of business? (bankruptcy protection? 3x?).
Last year Bombardier was already broke (you didn't see any world banks lining up to service Bombardier's finance needs). They needed at least $2 Billion to stay afloat from Quebec and Feds. They could very well be done in the next year or couple of years because they won't have customers resulting because they can't be trusted as a builder/supplier.
I agree with your view on "efficiencies" for 14 vehicles, which really is less of an issue for ionLRT and more so when the hundreds of vehicles (street rail and LRT) needed in Ontario can't be delivered on-time, serviced or parts supplied.
The message Metrolinx is sending to Bombardier > shut up and work harder, deliver on time or we have options and you won't be part of those options. That message is now being sent to the rest of the world too.
Bombardier needs to stop whining and actually care about their customers more than the usurious salaries they are paying Bombardier executives and senior managers.