07-09-2023, 04:17 PM
(07-09-2023, 12:18 PM)KevinL Wrote: The SRT's trains are falling apart and won't make it through another winter. There is no train stock available that can traverse the same tracks (particularly the tunnels and corners) without extensive (and expensive) modifications to trains, tunnels, or both.
These facts have been known for over a decade, but repeated municipal waffling and inaction means that the existing Line 3 will have to shut down a good 7 years before its replacement service opens.
At least the section between Kennedy and Ellesmere can be made into a busway in the interim, and Olivia Chow has made that a priority.
This is a vague and unsubstantiated claim. It's the same kind of thing I've heard from TTC constantly.
WHAT is falling apart. What will stop them working through the winter?
The fact that TTC will not answer these questions specifically (and nobody is willing to ask them) suggests that there are other motives here.
In my opinion the real answer is that the maintenance cost is escalating. The trains are old and old trains require more maintenance. This isn't impossible, it is just expensive, but again, the unwillingness to give an accurate and specific statement on this is what makes me so angry.
If they said "well, these are the repairs we expect the trains to need, these parts must be fabricated, it will cost 80 million in additional maintenance to operate the RT...or 40 million to operate at reduced service using the trains in best mechanical condition, or 20 million to build an interim busway"
Then I'd actually believe their statements....but they've said nothing more than vague bullshit....
This is why I don't trust them!