BurlOak
Senior Member
A forced transfer at Eglinton West?
That's the exact thing Transit City proposed for Kennedy.
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That's the exact thing Transit City proposed for Kennedy.
Steve X
Senior Member
Could be Oakwood or Fairbanks.
Meanwhile construction experts are shaking their heads... Eglinton is far more complicated than Keelesdale
Coolstar
Senior Member
Note the digital signage and the vehicle number which implies we have more than 10 Flexity's. A slow pace I might add.
crs1026
Superstar
I ranted about this once before, and I'm sure most readers thought I was out to lunch, but I will say it again. I am not a lawyer and this is not a legal opinion. But hear me out.
If Crosstown is already known to be behind schedule, and the delay is of a material level, it needs to be reported as such in ML's quarterly financial reports and in its annual report. The annual report bears an auditor's certification. Auditors have legal and professional responsibilities when they certify an annual report as accurate and truthful.
I don't know where the line falls between "ought to disclose publicly" and "is legally obligated to disclose publicly" - but one wonders if activists or opposition parties might try and push this lever if ML is found to be sitting on a bad news story. IMHO it would certainly serve ML right.
- Paul
Steve X
Senior Member
History trends to repeat itself. The TYSSE delays were known internally to the TTC many years before the news broke out. By 2011/2012 the TTC should have seen signs that the project was falling behind schedule. By 2014 it was well known internally that it will not open on time and need more money. Early 2015 they finally admitted they need money and is delayed another year. Nothing happened for years while the snowball was growing. The only signs of delay was written in TTC's CEO report saying there is a risk with slow progress - some transparency Andy Byford brought to the TTC. There is no equivalent for ML.
ML being less transparent than TTC will never admit anything. Considering Ford's job is on the line here. They have to somehow boost trust in the 4 PC transit projects, admitting they can't manage building one line is a huge no-no. Of course there is a chance ML is delusional and simply takes Crosslinx' words that the project is on track.
salsa
Senior Member
There’s only 21 months to go till the scheduled completion date. They won’t be able to suppress the truth much longer, and I don’t see how doing this is supposed to help the premier in front of an upcoming election.
crs1026
Superstar
Other P3 contracts that IO has put in the public domain (well, partially, anyways) have had schedules covering the amount of periodic reporting that the vendor has to provide, and ML’s rights to verify information for themselves. One assumes Crosstown’s contract is similar.
- Paul
crs1026
Superstar
Is there any evidence that lack of labour is the root cause of schedule slippage?
I have been down this road. There are only so many workers that can work on a job site at one time, especially if the tasks are highly interdependent and one critical-path item is holding up the following steps. Some things just can’t be done in parallel. No point adding electricians until the concrete work is complete, etc.The added people just stand around (burning your labour budget) or they actually get in the way.
Sure, maybe they can take up slack in later steps, and do more things at once. But “just add labour” is not a silver bullet when construction projects get behind.
- Paul
Rainforest
Senior Member
The premier will blame any Crosstown problems on the previous government.
And in this particular case, he won't be necessarily wrong. At least, it would require a detailed analysis to determine when the relevant mistakes were made, during the Wynne's watch, or under the current government.
Rainforest
Senior Member
Honestly, I am not super worried whether the Crosstown comes into service in 2021 or in 2023. Either way, it is a dramatic, game-changing improvement for this corridor. A delay of a year or two is nothing, compared to the situations in many other major corridors that are waiting for their lines for decades, without any luck.
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
I am hoping that any delay in Eglinton can be productively used to get Eglinton Connects initiatives underway while construction along the corridor is still occurring.
crs1026
Superstar
The question will be, when did you know and why didn’t you tell us sooner. And how many times did you tell us that everything is great before you fessed up. Ford and ML have done enough of the latter on this file (including site visit photo ops with Ford and his minions) that they have effectively assumed credit/blame for the result.
Incoming Governments are quick to declare that the finances were left in a mess. The time for doing that with Crosstown has passed.
- Paul
Richard White
Senior Member
I was passing through Kennedy RT station earlier and the station there is nowhere near ready to open. There is no concrete up yet and the hole for the station is still being excavated.
I get that miracles can happen but this station is a long way from opening in 2021. I am expecting it to be ready in 2022.
I get that miracles can happen but this station is a long way from opening in 2021. I am expecting it to be ready in 2022.
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
What’s the status on Eglinton Connects?
