ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Pheidippides]

It's a bit amusing to me how when I suggested years ago we go for Monorail, everyone cried no because you'd have to go back to the same vendor for vehicles.

Well, the rails in the ground will still handle a greater variety of manufacturers' vehicles than a concrete monorail guideway.  The only real constraint is the 30m/60m lengths required for LRVs.

In 30 years, the maintenance bays will need an overhaul anyway.  The question will be whether new vehicles from a different manufacturer will be cheap enough to justify the incremental cost of a more expensive maintenance facility refit.

Of course, with content requirements, there's a limited number of companies that can ever bid for the train contracts anyway.

I can't believe we are talking about the Flexity's replacement and we don't even have a working one yet.

Isn't another OMSF needed on the for the Cambridge section when it is built? If came down it though, couldn't they house one set of trains in one facility and one set in another?