Someone from Urban Toronto needs to go get a job at Metrolinx so we can have a mole on the inside.
Then we could find out if the Eglinton Crosstown LRT really is delayed because of a cracked foundation slab under the Yonge/Eglinton station or not.
Word on the street...
It may be what is being said on the street, and it may even be true, but I think you are missing the point.
As sensational as that admission might be, no one accountable to the public announces that the sky is falling without having a plan to collect the pieces and glue them back up..
And I would hope that UT posters aim for a higher standard than over doing any debate and reaction to something that has clearly not been confirmed as fact.
To humour you - Hypothetically - suppose it is true. There are currently trams running. So, the engineering question is not, is the cracked slab safe to operate in the very short term (if that were the case, we woudn't be training operators nor would we be allowing people to stand on top of it)
More likely the engineering question would be, how long until the situation becomes unsafe or requires correction, if ever, and are we making the problem worse by opening the line and operating it for some period of time before we fix it. And the second engineering question would be, how can we remediate the defect without tearing up everything that we have built.
And since that second question may take a while to figure out, I can understand why no one wants to talk about it quite yet.
But again, let's not validate a rumour just by talking it to death.
- Paul
