[T3G]

I'm not suprised.


If crosstown was getting close, like finch we would be hearing about revenue service by now.

Perhaps as metrolinxs CEO suggested they might do a soft launch first, but i personally doubt our politicians would approve it.

Personally where I in charge of the thing I might soft open the surface section while continuing to work on the rest. The surface section is afterall a street car.

And how do you maintain the cars, when the maintenance facility is at the opposite end of the line?

 

[Thaboss]

I am surprised this does not hit Ford's popularity more. Perhaps people in interested in the Eglinton Cross Town are already not Ford voters - but it is a really pretty bad example of government competence. If I was a provincial Liberal I would be beating him up more over it - thought I guess they have their own problems to focus on right now.

Frankly the opposition against Ford has failed to grab headlines in any meanigfull way. They've pretty much allowed ford to control the narrative in anything of significance since covid.

Now the libs will be leadersless and the ndp will continue with a weak leader, not much will change when the house sits in oct

 

[Thaboss]

And how do you maintain the cars, when the maintenance facility is at the opposite end of the line?

You allow the trains to keep running the entire line without passengers.

But yea i see how it doesnt make sense for a verity of reasons

 

[TOtramz]

I think opening only the surface section would overwhelm feeder bus capacity at Don Mills/Eglinton, where incidentally Metrolinx has decided to demolish the new bus terminal without opening it, so I don't think that's a good idea.

Is it confirmed that the bus terminal will be demolished? I thought they had provisions to use a limited amount of bays as the entrance will be closed for OL station construction.

 

[cplchanb]

Is it confirmed that the bus terminal will be demolished? I thought they had provisions to use a limited amount of bays as the entrance will be closed for OL station construction.

its nonsense talk. they already said theyd build a temp bus loop as that side the station was for construction staging.

 

[duty free]

still very hard to rationalize the 7 or 8 years gap.... no matter how repetitive this discussion is I still feel this is amazingly unaccepatable. lol

It's even harder to rationalize the 6+ year timeline to build 10 km of surface light rail.

 

[nfitz]

It's even harder to rationalize the 6+ year timeline to build 10 km of surface light rail.

And two underground stations. My gosh, how many years just to move the utilities - these aren't simple projects, when you have to keep the road open.

 

[The REAL]

How so?

I know ppl personally that worked on this project, and they were telling me that sometimes they would purposely redo platfoms or not fix things on time. Just so they could funnel in more money.

 

[PL1]

I know ppl personally that worked on this project, and they were telling me that sometimes they would purposely redo platfoms or not fix things on time. Just so they could funnel in more money.

Please do anonymously report this to the Provincial Ombudsman or the Auditor General.

 

[Bojaxs]

I know ppl personally that worked on this project, and they were telling me that sometimes they would purposely redo platfoms or not fix things on time. Just so they could funnel in more money.

Please do anonymously report this to the Provincial Ombudsman or the Auditor General.

Wasn't this a point of contention between Metrolinx and the contractors? In the contract agreed upon between Metrolinx and the contractors, MX would offer up a financial bonus to the contractors if the project was delivered on time and up to spec. The bonus is meant to try to discourage this type of behaviour. But as the project got closer to completion, MX started pointing out things that they deemed weren't up to spec and had to be done again. Contractor argued that MX was trying to get themselves out of having to pay out the bonus. Lawsuits ensued.

 

[cplchanb]

Please do anonymously report this to the Provincial Ombudsman or the Auditor General.

that goes for most govt funded projects. they will want to milk every last nickel they can get by doing the above and proposing outlandish designs.
had it been private development the most likely scenario would be that they would be kicked off the site or the firm fired from the job entirely

 

[rbt]

that goes for most govt funded projects.

Not just government. This is a struggle for any project with several layers of contractors; even a fixed-cost bid has a lot of hourly or cost+ bidders lower down.

 

[Imthedamguy]

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This doesn't mean line 5 is also going through RSD, right? Or they're just saying that for the sake of "testing"

 

[Bojaxs]

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This doesn't mean line 5 is also going through RSD, right? Or they're just saying that for the sake of "testing"

The intersections along Eglinton in Scarborough have turned into an unsightly mess of traffic lights and signs. Another reason we should have just built a subway. But I digress.

 

[Richard White]

The intersections along Eglinton in Scarborough have turned into an unsightly mess of traffic lights and signs. Another reason we should have just built a subway. But I digress.

I fully expect someone to get t-boned by a LRT vehicle due to confusing signage and lights.