12-07-2017, 12:15 AM
(12-06-2017, 08:41 AM)Canard Wrote: It's still postponed, for unknown reasons.
(“Why am I not surprised” is a bit harsh. You have no idea if one of the key reporters fell ill or something and couldn’t make it.)
It was probably a bit harsh.
When Bombardier starts meeting deadlines I will be the first to praise them.
Given the apparent progress they have made on our order they seem well positioned to meet Edmonton's 2016 order for 26 by 2020 (10 in 2018, 13 in 2019, and 3 in 2020).
If they start on the first part of Edmonton's order, 10 in 2018, on 01-Jan-2018 and deliver the first last one on 31-Dec-2018 that's about one every 37 days; very doable. And getting 26 by 31-Dec-2020 is only one every 42 days.
They still have a long way to go to finish the Eglinton part (76) of the 2010 (!) Metrolinx order which was originally due in 2020 and now not needed until the fall of 2021 (more likely 2022). They'd have to crank out Edmonton's 26 and then Eglinton's 76 at a rate of 1 every 14 days. Still doable, or claimed as such, but not something they have demonstrated yet, and even if they can do it that would still be 12 years between order placement and completion by then.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.