I posted this over on Urban Toronto, but I thought it might be nice to have here too.
A bit of a timeline for ION, that can be compared to other cities' current status:
Hurontario is the most advanced suburban-GTA project, and it's only where we were 4 years ago. Hamilton is >5 years behind us, and London is even more than that.
A bit of a timeline for ION, that can be compared to other cities' current status:
Quote:2005 - Consultations begin for Waterloo Region rapid transit
2009 - Council approves LRT, subject to additional funding from the Province and Feds
2010 - Province and Feds announce funding support ($300M and ~$253M respectively)
2011 - Post-election Council re-votes for LRT
2012 Feb - Design-Build-Finance-Maintain-Operate bundled contract is selected as method of procurement
2012 May - EA completed
2012 Oct - Request For Qualifications (RFQ) solicited
2013 May - Request For Proposals (RFP) issued to the three qualified bidding consortiums.
2014 Jan - Bids revealed
2014 Mar - Winning bid selected
2014 Aug - Groundbreaking on Maintenance and Storage facility.
2014 Oct - Election is fought with anti-LRT candidates threatening to pull the plug, but thankfully, most of them lose.
Sources:
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4390...-timeline/
http://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/...istory.asp
Hurontario is the most advanced suburban-GTA project, and it's only where we were 4 years ago. Hamilton is >5 years behind us, and London is even more than that.