03-06-2019, 11:33 AM
(03-06-2019, 11:01 AM)urbd Wrote:(03-06-2019, 10:06 AM)plam Wrote: Getting back to our own launch date: if we are hoping for late April, then simulated service is supposed to start in about three weeks, since that is supposed to take a month. That is quite soon but feels viable based on what we've heard.
I saw that the Ottawa system looks like it has only 12 days of simulated service...
I recently heard from someone that they are aiming for early June due to the schedules of important people that need to be present for the opening ceremony (very grand event I hear) and to give themselves a bit of a buffer - even though it might be ready for service sometime in May.
You can and probably should have a grand opening after a soft opening, especially for a system of this complexity. You can simulate service all you want, but having actual passengers is not quite the same. Then again, I guess that for other transit systems, grand opening has been soft opening too.