Yeggy said:
Rumour mill from inside ETS.

The city will take over operation of the low floor line, all of it.
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That's very interesting. There's a report going to Exec Committee on April 2 for some contract extensions, and it contained some provisions that sparked my interest. Perhaps it's related to the rumour?

This one of the reasons given to extend AECOM's contract to 2030:
"an additional scope of work has been identified to support the City with experts for the development of technical specifications for a future operator for the fully integrated 27-kilometre Valley Line."

Similarly, here is some of the justification they give for extending Ernst & Young Orenda Corporate Finance's contract:
"A series of five contract amendments were executed between 2020 and 2025 to extend the term of the agreement and add scopes of work. The additional scopes included support for the LRV procurement, procurement of an Independent Certifier and development of a strategy to retain an operations and maintenance service provider. As the City is now arranging to execute its operations and maintenance strategy, the agreement with EY needs to be extended to provide continued commercial advisory support to the City as it proceeds with developing a business case to evaluate long-term operations and maintenance options, and to execute the preferred option. This support will be required until such time that an agreement with the full Valley Line operator is in place."

Regardless of who the sole operator will be, it seems like it might not be TransEd.
 
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CplKlinger said:
That's very interesting. There's a report going to Exec Committee on April 2 for some contract extensions, and it contained some provisions that sparked my interest. Perhaps it's related to the rumour?

This one of the reasons given to extend AECOM's contract to 2030:
"an additional scope of work has been identified to support the City with experts for the development of technical specifications for a future operator for the fully integrated 27-kilometre Valley Line."

Similarly, here is some of the justification they give for extending Ernst & Young Orenda Corporate Finance's contract:
"A series of five contract amendments were executed between 2020 and 2025 to extend the term of the agreement and add scopes of work. The additional scopes included support for the LRV procurement, procurement of an Independent Certifier and development of a strategy to retain an operations and maintenance service provider. As the City is now arranging to execute its operations and maintenance strategy, the agreement with EY needs to be extended to provide continued commercial advisory support to the City as it proceeds with developing a business case to evaluate long-term operations and maintenance options, and to execute the preferred option. This support will be required until such time that an agreement with the full Valley Line operator is in place."

Regardless of who the sole operator will be, it seems like it won't be TransEd.
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Not sure why you don’t think it’s transed there are not many choices it’s either ETS or transed since transed already have contract to run the line for 30 years they might choose them
 
Driving along the VLW route today, I noticed the following.
(1) The beginning of street work on the south side of 104 Avenue. Also, some walls for the LRT stations (112, 124, 133 Street) are built.
(2) Some track work west of the Groat Bridge.
(3) Some curb work (in the middle) on Stony Plain Road.
(4) Some pavement being ripped up around 156 Street/100 Avenue.
(5) The southbound road on Meadowlark Road is built, even if it's not open.
(6) 87 Avenue westbound is open. Misericordia and WEM stations are under construction with the staircase emergency exits started. Guardrails on viaduct are updated.
(7) Parts for the Gantry crane waiting for assembly.
(8) Construction on parts of the track west of 178 Street. Some overhead covers for the track construction near 189 Street, like the 133 and 142 Street stations.
 
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