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One already exists (Alstom Citadis Spirit - see Ottawa Confederation LRT) but will never see service on the Crosstown since Metrolinx will have all it's ordered cars from Bombardier (sans welding issue) by the time they actually need them. Please stop calling the product a lemon when other...

It was only a mess because Bombardier were underpaying the welders they were training and then gawking in surprise as they left for higher paying jobs once certified.

with the current rate of deliveries TTC could exercise the option now and never miss these 67 vehicles since more vehicles will be delivered at any given time than leave for La Pocatiere . If there wasn't an issue delivering the vehicles there probably would have been more of an impact to the...

This isn't something you can sue over. It is warrantied service and Bombardier has carried out in full it's legal obligations to alert the customer of discovered defects and devised a plan of action to remedy the defects.

not an uncommon issue. think of all the voluntary recalls automobiles go through on a regular basis. You don't hear about all of them (media only talks about the serious ones). Until you get a letter in the mail from a local dealer.

It was likely to get La Poc tooled up properly to spec. (It should be noted that after the first 67 the plant in Sahagun, Mexico no longer makes anything for the Flexities with most frames being made in La Poc or Vienna). Since deliveries are starting to come at a pretty fast pace they can...

Metrolinx isn't supposed to get one until closer to the end of the year as per the agreement. Waterloo's vehicles are all assembled and are now having their signalling equipment installed in the 8 vehicles still in Kingston on a separate contract.

6 of 14 are in Waterloo getting Grandlinq's specialized equipment installed, 8 completed in Kingston having Grandlinq's specialized equipment installed in Kingston.

Handheld EDACS-compatible radio Horn is just a testing precaution, they won't use it in service. Yeah you caught them doing testing with one of the 13 new operators that they hired recently. In the cab in the 5th video you posted (from left to right) was one of the test contractors, the lead...

Thunder Bay has two production lines and running at a time right now. They get inspected, QC tested and shipped in order of completion rather than fleet number ordering. During the production run they'll always have about 4-5 assembled vehicles in the bays for inspection, QC testing and final...

4466 was the one damaged in transit and had to be sent back for extensive repairs.

Her complaint seems based on her thinking in terms of traditional Diesel-Electric trains. Full electric trains will always accelerate and decelerate faster than Diesel-Electric trains.

Simply upgrading the existing route to 175 km/h maximum isn't going to attract people to get out of their cars to ride it especially since the average speed would be comparable to taking the 401 in good traffic. The difference being the 401 doesn't stop in every small town or city along the way...

that's not real priority. That's being stuck at the light waiting for it to change. They need the traffic signal premption device installed for true priority, and currently they don't have them installed.

They were activated by the vehicle presence detector embedded in the concrete

They can't use the priority signalling until the test vehicles have all the specialized equipment installed in them. This equipment is required to preempt the traffic signals before the train reaches the intersection. Until then they can't sustain full operation speed on the on-street sections...

$$$$. Building and maintaining an induction power system is much more expensive than an overhead contact system

That's always a fun situation to deal with...

IONs messenger wire is stranded copper or copper plated wire and carries the full load current with insulated connector wire at regular intervals and non-conductive droppers.

I see they aren't risking the pole popping up on the return trip