09-11-2018, 08:27 PM
(09-11-2018, 10:52 AM)Canard Wrote: There is no blank cheque. There is no cost increase because you had to wait a little longer to ride. Fixed price contract. P3. Boom. Such an impatient world we live in.
Lots of crews out on Charles; about 5 guys at Kitchener Market ripping a hole out out of the NB left turn lane, and another (bigger) crew in the Rapidway at Stirling.
I was thinking about this comment earlier today.
Whether it's a fixed price P3 contract or not, for a project with this type of visibility, to be 1+ years behind and the amount of re-work (and frankly, waste) occurring, there are probably a lot of the general tax-paying public feeling like they were misled (on the schedule) or or not getting their money's worth (from a working LRT system).
I want to see this thing up and running as much as anyone. A lot of the major routes through town have been modified to the point there's no going back now, but there would surely be less critics (or less fuel for the critics) if it were closer to being on schedule than further away.