08-26-2023, 06:46 PM
Huh? The Flexity Freedom's were mostly built here in Canada (some was done in Mexico but not much). Bombardier knows how to cast metals, mould plastics and obtain electric/computer/etc systems to install and have a lot of experience making transportation products, so they should know how to put together trains in a timely manner. It all gets manufactured to order. Not like European rolling stock manufacturers have storerooms of trains they can just sell ASAP. The bulk of the LRT infrastructure itself is not complicated either. It's a lot of concrete, rails and various things like signalling, power lines, communications, drainage, pouring ballast etc) and there are more than enough experienced companies out there that can do this stuff. We just have a really awful way of completing public infrastructure projects over here resulting in everything costing a large amount of money and time. The planning, policies, economics, construction and operation of things is ridiculously high when it really shouldn't be.