06-22-2020, 05:16 PM
Also I was looking at the latest council report on ION and there are a few interesting points.
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- A bunch of revenue, boarding, and ridership data that's hard to draw any conclusions from due to the transit strike and COVID-19.
- Bombardier has essentially halted warranty deficiency work on the LRVs since February, again due to COVID-19.
- Bombardier is replacing deficient welds on 11 of the region's LRVs at the OMSF over the next two years. They claim the issue poses no safety risk but is being done to meet the expected 30 years service life.
- Bombardier is building a spare LRV for the region in Kingston, to be delivered late 2020 or early 2021.
- Approximately 11% of fares are inspected daily. 3% of inspected riders have not paid their fare, and approximately 35 people are charged with provincial offences related to fares every month.
- The region didn't anticipate the failure rate with platform validators and had to order more spare units as a result.
- Various work was done on the fare system during the free fare period, including altering the fare payment terminals to improve cashless transaction speed (has anyone noticed improvements?).