01-28-2019, 10:59 AM
(01-28-2019, 08:26 AM)Canard Wrote: It would have been standard, if Metrolinx had spec’d it in a timely manner.
They did not. This is the whole reason the project is so woefully delayed!
They dragged their heels so much with it that finally the Region had no choice but to strike it out on their own. And they did so a year after the system was originally supposed to be in revenue service.
But, the media and the public? “It’s all Bombardier’s fault.”
/rant
PS, Bombardier makes their own system called CITYFLO. Our trains could have been standard, as you say, but the choice was by others not to go this route.
Not only just this, but the Region knew about the equipment requirement almost 5 years ago and waited to act on that knowledge until the vehicles were all assembled (which in my opinion makes no sense considering what kind of work needed to be done). It would have been faster and easier if the Region asked Bombardier to install the equipment during assembly of the vehicles.